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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and the Use of Foreign Languages; Introduction; Section 1 Producing and Circulating Manuscripts; Chapter 1 Commissioned and Owner-Produced Manuscripts in the Sephardi Zone and Italy in the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries; Chapter 2 Immigrant Scribes' Handwriting in Northern Italy from the Late Thirteenth to the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Attitudes toward the Italian Script; Chapter 3 Studia of Philosophy as Scribal Centers in Fifteenth-Century Iberia.

Chapter 4 Jewish Book Owners and Their Libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Fourteenth-Fifteenth CenturiesSection 2 Conceptualizing the Hebrew Book; Chapter 5 Inscribing Piety in Late-Thirteenth-Century Perpignan; Chapter 6 The Scholarly Interests of a Scribe and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Majorca: Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques's Bookcase; Chapter 7 Le'azim in David Kimhi's Sefer ha-shorashim: Scribes and Printers through Space and Time; Section 3 Crossing Linguistic and Religious Boundaries; Chapter 8 Fifteenth-Century Castilian Translations from Hebrew Literature.

Chapter 9 The Artist of the Barcelona HaggadahChapter 10 Quotations, Translations, and Uses of Jewish Texts in Ramon Mart�i's Pugio fidei; Section 4 Printing in Hebrew on the Eve of the Iberian Expulsion; Chapter 11 Unknown Sephardi Incunabula; Chapter 12 What Do We Know about Hebrew Printing in Guadalajara, H�ijar, and Zamora?; Chapter 13 Techne and Culture: Printers and Readers in Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Communities; General Index; Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula.

This collection takes the Hebrew book as a focal point for exploring the production, circulation, transmission, and consumption of Hebrew texts in the cultural context of the late medieval western Mediterranean. The authors elaborate in particular on questions concerning private vs. public book production and collection; the religious and cultural components of manuscript patronage; collaboration between Christian and Jewish scribes, artists, and printers; and the impact of printing on Iberian Jewish communities. Unlike other approaches that take context into consideration merely to explain certain variations in the history of the Hebrew book from antiquity to the present, the premise of these essays is that context constitutes the basis for understanding practices and processes in late medieval Jewish book culture.

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