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IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 527: Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Margins, I: Visualising Science

Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser:Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 527-aCopying Mistakes or Mistaken Copyists: On the Interplay between Text and Diagrams in the Sefer ha-Mar'im
(Language: English)
Sabine Arndt, Institut für Jüdische Studien Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science
Paper 527-bWritten on Your Palm: Diagrams of the Human Hand in Jewish Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
(Language: English)
Zsófia Buda, British Library, London
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science
Paper 527-cMarginal Judeo-Italian Scientific Terminology in Hebrew Treatises from Renaissance Italy
(Language: English)
Ilana Wartenberg, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 / Tel Aviv University
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science
Abstract

The series of sessions present current research in Hebrew manuscript studies after the codicological turn, and especially margins, marginalia, and marginalities in relation to manuscripts in any Jewish languages. The sessions will cover Codicology, Paleography, glossing, Page layout of commentaries and exegesis, Paratexts, Image on the Edge, Scribal drawing and illuminators' painting in the margins, Maps and diagrams, Hebrew other Jewish languages (centre, periphery, margins), Intertextualities and intervisualities, Recycling and palimpsests, and Genizah and 'Genizah of Europe' / Books within Books.