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Sefer Tagin fragments from the Cairo Genizah : a critical edition, commentary and reconstruction / Marc Michaels

Michaels, Marc, 1963- [Zusammenstellung, Transkribtion, Herausgeberin/-geber, Kommentarverfasserin/-verfasser, Verfass. von Zusatztexten]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill [[2020]], [2020]

XX, 266 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Dissertation

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Sefer Tagin fragments from the Cairo Genizah / Michaels, Marc (Online-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-42635-1 (hardback)

978-90-04-42636-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020031604

OCoLC: 1226523567     

BS718

492.41/1     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticism, Textual ; Sefer Tagin ; Masorah ; Scribes, Jewish -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Hebrew language -- Writing ; Calligraphy, Hebrew ; Cairo Genizah ; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- England -- Cambridge ; Manuscripts, Aramaic -- England -- Cambridge

"In A Critical Edition, Commentary and Reconstruction of Two 10th/11th Century Manuscripts of Parts of Sefer Tagin from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels transcribes and recreates fragments of arguably the earliest found manuscript of the manual for sofrim (scribes) concerning the decorative tagin (tittles) and 'strange' letter forms that adorn certain words in the Torah. Comparing these found fragments from the Cairo Genizah that now reside in the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library against the other core and secondary sources of Sefer Tagin (including several pages of a new secondary source also from Cambridge), Michaels establishes the most likely readings to assist the reconstruction of the fragments and shed light on the original intention of the author of Sefer Tagin"--