The late medieval Hebrew book in the Western Mediterranean : Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula in context / edited by Javier del Barco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barco, Javier del, editor.

Series:

Études sur le judaïsme médiéval

Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Spain--History.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Portugal--History.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Italy--History.

History.

Western Mediterranean--Ethnic relations.

Western Mediterranean.

Ethnic relations.

Italy.

Mediterranean Region--Western Mediterranean.

Portugal.

Spain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Contents:

Section 1 Producing and Circulating Manuscripts

1 Commissioned and Owner-Produced Manuscripts in the Sephardi Zone and Italy in the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries / Malachi Beit-Arié Beit-Arié, Malachi 15

2 Immigrant Scribes' Handwriting in Northern Italy from the Late Thirteenth to the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Attitudes Toward the Italian Script / Edna Engel Engel, Edna 28

3 Studia of Philosophy as Scribal Centers in Fifteenth-Century Iberia / Colette Sirat Sirat, Colette 46

4 Jewish Book Owners and their Libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries / Joseph R. Hacker Hacker, Joseph R. 70

Section 2 Conceptualizing the Hebrew Book

5 Inscribing Piety in Late-Thirteenth-Century Perpignan / Eva Frojmovic Frojmovic, Eva 107

6 The Scholarly Interests of a Scribe and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Majorca: Elisha Ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques's Bookcase / Katrin Kogman-Appel Kogman-Appel, Katrin 148

7 Le'azim in David Kimhi's Sefer ka-shoraskim: Scribes and Printers through Space and Time / Judith Kogel Kogel, Judith 182

Section 3 Crossing Linguistic and Religious Boundaries

8 Fifteenth-Century Castilian Translations from Hebrew Literature / Sonia Fellous Fellous, Sonia 203

9 The Artist of the Barcelona Haggadah / Evelyn M. Cohen Cohen, Evelyn M. 249

10 Quotations, Translations, and Uses of Jewish Texts in Ramon Marti's Pugio fidei / Philippe Bobichon Bobichon, Philippe 266

Section 4 Printing in Hebrew on the Eve of the Iberian Expulsion

11 Unknown Sephardi Incunabula / Shimon M. Iakerson Iakerson, Shimon M. 297

12 What Do We Know about Hebrew Printing in Guadalajara, Hijar, and Zamora? / Adri K. Offenberg Offenberg, Adri K. 313

13 Techne and Culture: Printers and Readers in Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Communities / Eleazar Gutwirth Gutwirth, Eleazar 338.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Beit-Arié, Malachi. Commissioned and owner-produced manuscripts in the Sephardi zone and Italy in the Thirteenth-Fifteenth centuries.

ISBN:

9789004250062

9004250069

9789004306103

9004306102

OCLC:

917888487