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Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy
European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 6
Series: - Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 69
Editor:
This richly illustrated volume offers the most comprehensive and updated survey on about sixteen thousand Hebrew manuscript fragments reused as book-bindings and preserved in hundreds of libraries and archives in Italy. Contributions by the leading scholars in the field elucidate specific collections and genres no less than individual fragments, bringing to new life a forgotten library of medieval Jewish books, as almost 160 Talmudic codices, which include the Mishna, Tosefta, Palestinian Talmud and, for the most part, the Babylonian one, and several hitherto unknown texts. The contribution of these fragments to the ongoing research on the âEuropean Genizahâ, as the Books within Books Project, and to Jewish Studies in general cannot be overestimated.
Mauro Perani, Ph.D. h.c. by the Hebrew University, was full professor of Hebrew at the Bologna University until 2019 and has served as director and editor of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismoâs review Materia giudaica since 2000. In 2008 he founded the Corpus Epithaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae book series. He has published dozens of books and hundreds of articles on themes pertaining to Judaism. His publications can be found on the website https://unibo.academia.edu/MauroPerani.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
1 Foreword
âIsrael Ta-Shma, zal
2 Introduction
âMauro Perani
3 Manuscripta manent: âBooks within Booksâ, an Overview
âEmma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
4 âThe Italian Genizahâ: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
âBenjamin Richler
5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew Manuscripts
âMauro Perani
6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian Genizah
âSimcha Emanuel
7 The âItalian Genizahâ: Features and Report on Forty Years of Research
âMauro Perani
8 The âEuropean Genizahâ: Between Hope and Reality
âSimcha Emanuel
9 11thâ12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the âItalian Genizahâ and Their System of Vocalization
âChiara Pilocane
10 The Importance of the âItalian Genizahâ for the Study of Yosef Qaraâs Biblical Commentaries
âAvraham Grossman
11 The Talmudic Fragments of the âEuropean Genizahâ
âYaaqov Sussmann
12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the âItalian Genizahâ
âGad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal
13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the âItalian Genizahâ: the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)
âMauro Perani and Günter Stemberger
14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Ḥagigah from the State Archives of Bologna
âMauro Perani
15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and Ḥagigah
âGünter Stemberger
16 The Sheâiltot de-Rav Aḥai from the 10thâ11th Century Found in Ravenna
âPinchas Roth
17 The Travel of the 10thâ11th-Century Sheâiltot de-Rav Aḥai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase Note
âMauro Perani
18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot, Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University Library
âMauro Perani
19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book
âRoni Shweka
20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena Archives
âMenahem Kahana
21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in Modena
âMenahem Kahana
22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the âItalian Genizahâ: An Updated Survey
âSaverio Campanini
Bibliography on the âItalian Genizahâ and âEuropean Genizahâ 1915â2021
âMauro Perani and Emma Abate
Index
List of Illustrations
1 Foreword
âIsrael Ta-Shma, zal
2 Introduction
âMauro Perani
Part 1: General Description and History
3 Manuscripta manent: âBooks within Booksâ, an Overview
âEmma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
4 âThe Italian Genizahâ: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
âBenjamin Richler
5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew Manuscripts
âMauro Perani
6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian Genizah
âSimcha Emanuel
7 The âItalian Genizahâ: Features and Report on Forty Years of Research
âMauro Perani
8 The âEuropean Genizahâ: Between Hope and Reality
âSimcha Emanuel
Part 2: Bible and Its Commentaries
9 11thâ12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the âItalian Genizahâ and Their System of Vocalization
âChiara Pilocane
10 The Importance of the âItalian Genizahâ for the Study of Yosef Qaraâs Biblical Commentaries
âAvraham Grossman
Part 3: Talmudic and Halakhic Texts
11 The Talmudic Fragments of the âEuropean Genizahâ
âYaaqov Sussmann
12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the âItalian Genizahâ
âGad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal
13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the âItalian Genizahâ: the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)
âMauro Perani and Günter Stemberger
14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Ḥagigah from the State Archives of Bologna
âMauro Perani
15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and Ḥagigah
âGünter Stemberger
16 The Sheâiltot de-Rav Aḥai from the 10thâ11th Century Found in Ravenna
âPinchas Roth
17 The Travel of the 10thâ11th-Century Sheâiltot de-Rav Aḥai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase Note
âMauro Perani
18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot, Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University Library
âMauro Perani
19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book
âRoni Shweka
Part 4: Midrashic Texts
20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena Archives
âMenahem Kahana
21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in Modena
âMenahem Kahana
Part 5: Kabbalah
22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the âItalian Genizahâ: An Updated Survey
âSaverio Campanini
Bibliography on the âItalian Genizahâ and âEuropean Genizahâ 1915â2021
âMauro Perani and Emma Abate
Index
Librarians, historians of the book, (post-graduate) students, biblists, and palaeographers of the Hebrew language and writing.