Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

An illustrated 2002 introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture from the tenth to fifteenth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Texts: 1. Before the Middle Ages; 2. The Middle Ages; Part II. Books: 3. Codicology; 4. Writing: calligraphic and personal subjects; 5. The scribe; Appendix. Abbreviations, acrostics and the meaning of the Hebrew letters; Part III. The History of Books and Texts: 6. The life and death of manuscripts; 7. Libraries; 8. Questions of method: codicology and palaeography; 9. Texts, copies and text-editions; 10. Judgement on readings and the edition of texts; Part IV. Some Manuscripts: 11. Ten manuscripts: pictures and detailed descriptions.

About the author

Colette Sirat is Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Department of History and Philology, and head of the Hebrew Department, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Summary

This illustrated 2002 introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture encompasses all aspects of Hebrew manuscripts - textual, codicological and palaeographical - combining different disciplines to give an all-embracing view of the subject. A description of the history of texts in Hebrew reveals the range and variety of texts - many of which have never been printed.

Product details

• Authors: Colette Sirat
• Assisted by: N. R. M. De Lange (Editor), Nicholas de Lange (Editor), Nicholas de Lange (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521770798
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77079-8
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 810 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias