Medieval Hebrew manuscripts reused as book-bindings in Italy / edited by Mauro Perani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perani, Mauro, editor.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 69.

Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; Volume 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Italy--History.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscript fragments--Italy--History.

Manuscript fragments.

Italy--Imprints--History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

This richly illustrated volume offers the most comprehensive and updated survey on about sixteen thousand Hebrew manuscript fragments reused as book-bindings and preserved in hundreds of libraries and archives in Italy. Contributions by the leading scholars in the field elucidate specific collections and genres no less than individual fragments, bringing to new life a forgotten library of medieval Jewish books, as almost 160 Talmudic codices, which include the Mishna, Tosefta, Palestinian Talmud and, for the most part, the Babylonian one, and several hitherto unknown texts. The contribution of these fragments to the ongoing research on the "European Genizah", as the Books within Books Project, and to Jewish Studies in general cannot be overestimated.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1 Foreword

Israel Ta-Shma, zal

2 Introduction

Mauro Perani

Part 1: General Description and History

3 Manuscripta manent : "Books within Books", an Overview

Emma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

4 "The Italian Genizah": an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

Benjamin Richler

5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew Manuscripts

6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian Genizah

Simcha Emanuel

7 The "Italian Genizah": Features and Report on Forty Years of Research

8 The "European Genizah": Between Hope and Reality

Part 2: Bible and Its Commentaries

9 11th-12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the "Italian Genizah" and Their System of Vocalization

Chiara Pilocane

10 The Importance of the "Italian Genizah" for the Study of Yosef Qara's Biblical Commentaries

Avraham Grossman

Part 3: Talmudic and Halakhic Texts

11 The Talmudic Fragments of the "European Genizah"

Yaaqov Sussmann

12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the "Italian Genizah"

Gad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal

13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the "Italian Genizah": the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)

Mauro Perani and Günter Stemberger

14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Ḥagigah from the State Archives of Bologna

15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and Ḥagigah

Günter Stemberger

16 The She'iltot de-Rav Aḥai from the 10th-11th Century Found in Ravenna

Pinchas Roth

17 The Travel of the 10th-11th-Century She'iltot de-Rav Aḥai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase Note

18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot , Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University Library

19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book

Roni Shweka

Part 4: Midrashic Texts

20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena Archives

Menahem Kahana

21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in Modena

Part 5: Kabbalah

22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the "Italian Genizah": An Updated Survey

Saverio Campanini

Bibliography on the "Italian Genizah" and "European Genizah" 1915-2021

Mauro Perani and Emma Abate

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Perani, Mauro Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused As Book-Bindings in Italy

ISBN:

9789004470996

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004470996 DOI