Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean

Javier del Barco, PhD (2001), Universidad Complutense, is Associate Researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. He has published on medieval and early modern Hebrew manuscript culture and has catalogued many collections of Hebrew manuscripts.

• A Note on Transliteration and the Use of Foreign LanguagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Javier del BarcoSection 1. Producing and Circulating ManuscriptsCommissioned and Owner-Produced Manuscripts in the Sephardi Zone and Italy in the Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries, Malachi Beit-AriéImmigrant Scribes’ Handwriting in Northern Italy from the Late Thirteenth to the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Attitudes toward the Italian Script, Edna EngelStudia of Philosophy as Scribal Centers in Fifteenth-Century Iberia, Colette SiratJewish Book Owners and Their Libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries, Joseph R. HackerSection 2. Conceptualizing the Hebrew BookInscribing Piety in Late-Thirteenth-Century Perpignan, Eva FrojmovicThe Scholarly Interests of a Scribe and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Majorca: Elisha ben Abraham Benvenisti Cresques’s Bookcase, Katrin Kogman-AppelLe‘azim in David Kimhi’s Sefer ha-shorashim: Scribes and Printers through Space and Time, Judith KogelSection 3. Crossing Linguistic and Religious BoundariesFifteenth-Century Castilian Translations from Hebrew Literature, Sonia FellousThe Artist of the Barcelona Haggadah, Evelyn CohenQuotations, Translations, and Uses of Jewish Texts in Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei, Philippe BobichonSection 4. Printing in Hebrew on the Eve of the Iberian ExpulsionUnknown Sephardi Incunabula, Shimon M. IakersonWhat Do We Know about Hebrew Printing in Guadalajara, Híjar, and Zamora?, Adri K. OffenbergTechne and Culture: Printers and Readers in Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Communities, Eleazar Gutwirth