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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1324: Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Margins, II: Cultural Encounters in the Margins

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Julie Harris, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago
Paper 1324-aGenizah Margins: Reevaluating the Meaning of a Medieval Jewish Textual Art
(Language: English)
Noam Sienna, College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota
Index terms: Art History - General, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1324-bCopying 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 1324-cMarginalia and Gender in Hebrew Manuscript Illumination
(Language: English)
Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Index terms: Art History - General, 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, including 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 and other Jewish languages, centre, periphery, margins, intertextualities, and intervisualities, recycling and palimpsests, Genizah and 'Genizah of Europe', and Books within Books.