An Unknown Ashkenazic Torah Scroll from the Early 13th Century: a Palaeographical Study
This study focuses on the palaeographical analysis of an almost unknown Torah scroll, Berlin, Private Collection, MS Rhineland 1217, written in Ashkenaz, around the beginning of the 13th century. This scroll is unique because it was written according to pre-Maimonidean halakhic strictures. The palae...
| Subtitles: | From Cairo to Amsterdam. Hebrew Scrolls from the 11th to the 18th Centuries (eds. Emma Abate and Justine Isserles) |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2021
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| In: |
Henoch
Year: 2021, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 105-135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
tôrah
/ Role (Aufwicklung)
/ Middle Ages
/ History
/ History 1100-1300
/ Paleography
/ Hebraica
/ Berlin
/ Erfurt
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
MS Rhineland 1217
B Medieval Ashkenaz B Radiocarbon Dating B Hebrew Letters B Hebrew Paleography B Torah Scroll |
| Summary: | This study focuses on the palaeographical analysis of an almost unknown Torah scroll, Berlin, Private Collection, MS Rhineland 1217, written in Ashkenaz, around the beginning of the 13th century. This scroll is unique because it was written according to pre-Maimonidean halakhic strictures. The palaeographical features of this scroll are comparatively analysed here with a selection of biblical manuscripts and Torah scrolls, also produced in Ashkenaz and dated to between the late 12th and 14th centuries. |
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| ISSN: | 0393-6805 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Henoch
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