Studies in Jewish Manuscripts

Edited by Joseph Dan and Klaus Herrmann in collaboration with Johanna Hoornweg and Manuela Petzoldt.

Containing eight articles (one of which is in French), this volume brings together researchers of different specialist areas to deal with Medieval and Early Modern Hebrew manuscripts in various ways - topics include: Kabbalah, philosophy, Hekhalot literature, magic, sermons, graphology and codicology. Together, they show perspectives and possibilites of manuscript-based discourse within Judaic Studies as well as tie-ins with disciplines relating to general Medieval and Early Modern history. Contents: Joseph Dan: "The Book of Divine Glory" by Rabbi Judah the Pious of Regensburg. - Klaus Herrmann: The Reception of Hekhalot-Literature in Yohanan Alemanno's Autograph MS Paris 849. - Naftali Loewenthal: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi's "Kitzur Likkutei Amarim" British Library Or. 10465. - Aviezer Ravitzky: The God of the Philosophers Versus the God of the Kabbalists. A Controversy in 15th Century Crete (MSS Vatican Heb. 105 and 254). - Marc Saperstein: The Manuscript/s of Morteira's Sermons. - Gabrielle Sed-Rajna: The History of a Hebrew Codex. A Hebrew Codex as History. Maimonides' "Mishneh Torah" at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. - Joseph Shatzmiller/Anne-Marie Weil: Un autographe de Gersonide. Examen graphologique. - Mark Verman: Signor Tranquillo's Magic Notebook. XV,254 Seiten mit 20 Tafeln, Leinen (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism; Vol. 14/Mohr Siebeck 1999) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear