IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1719: 'Ruling' the Script, VI: Hebrew Scripts
Thursday 12 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds Dominique Stutzmann, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris Georg Vogeler, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
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Moderator/Chair: | Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 1719-a | 13th-Century Castilian in Hebrew Script: What Is the Rule? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1719-b | Masters of Micrography in 13th-Century Ashkenaz (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1719-c | Hebrew Riesenbibeln and the Kalonymos Family of Scribes (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Abstract a: Aljamiado (the use of Arabic and Hebrew script to transcribe Romance languages) is one of the most salient manifestations of language contact among different religious communities in medieval Iberia. The use of the Arabic and Hebrew writing systems for Romance languages put the scribes' writing habits to the test, and made them aware of the problem of correspondence between sounds and graphic signs. Hebrew aljamiado texts written between the 11th and the 15th century exhibit a transforming system in which neither specific rules nor univocal correspondences were formulated; nevertheless, some trends can be outlined and described as 'rules'. In this paper I will analyze aljamiado glosses from a 13th-century biblical commentary in Hebrew, and will attempt to find these rules in the use of the graphic system, both in diachronic comparison with other aljamiado texts and in linguistic comparison with other graphic systems in use at the same time, namely Arabic and Latin. Abstract b: This paper will present exemplary Masoretes, that is scribes who wrote ornamental copies of the micrographic Masorah magna in medieval Ashkenazi Bibles. Abstract c: to be provided Abstract d: to be provided |