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IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 727: Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Margins, III: After Writing (Binders, Censors, Fragments)

Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45

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 727-aWho Owns the Margins?: Encounters between Scribe, Illustrator, Reader, and Bookbinder in the Margins of Late Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
(Language: English)
Rodica Herlo-Lukowski, Institut für Jüdische Studien Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 727-bFrom Leeds to Sydney: The Identification of a Hebrew 'Book within a Book' Fragment First Observed by Alan Crown
(Language: English)
Gary Rendsburg, Department of Jewish Studies Rutgers University New Jersey
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History
Paper 727-cCensorial Marks by Marchion: Some New Discoveries
(Language: English)
Ilana Tahan, British Library, London
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
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 exegeses, 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' or books within books.