The most ancient Hebrew manuscripts reused as bookbinding in Europe: The Tosefta of Norcia and the Še’iltot of Ravenna from the 10th century

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  • Mauro Perani

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https://doi.org/10.6092/2281-6062/7231

Abstract

The present study focuses on two of the most ancient and rare findings of the ‘Italian Genizah’ project: the fragments of a Tosefta discovered in Norcia and part of a codex with the Še’iltot de-Rav Aḥai discovered in Ravenna. Both the manuscripts described here, and analysed from a codicological and palaeographic point of view, date back to the late 10th century. The Norcia Tosefta fragments, written in Hebrew square Oriental script, were probably copied in Salento ‒ and belong to the oldest manuscript of the Tosefta presently known ‒ while the manuscript of the Še’iltot de-Rav Aḥai, written in old square Hebrew Oriental script of the Maghrebine typology, is likely to have been copied in Sicily, where this kind of script was also in use.

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2020-10-05

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Perani, M. (2020). The most ancient Hebrew manuscripts reused as bookbinding in Europe: The Tosefta of Norcia and the Še’iltot of Ravenna from the 10th century. Sefer yuḥasin ספר יוחסין | Review for the History of the Jews in South Italy | Rivista Per La Storia Degli Ebrei nell’Italia Meridionale, 8, 151–174. https://doi.org/10.6092/2281-6062/7231

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