Jewish Manuscript Cultures (Studies in Manuscript Cultures) by Wandrey, Irina [Hardcover ]

This volume focuses on the status of research on Hebrew manuscript culture and includes manuscripts written in other Jewish scripts or languages such as Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic or Yiddish. The work spans 17 academic papers dealing with the state of the art in areas such as codicology and palaeography, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and the material analysis of manuscripts.