Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
Representing four centuries of collecting and a thousand years of Jewish history, this book brings together Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the extraordinary collections include a fragment of Maimonides’ autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah, the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, stunning festival prayer books, and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring these outstanding works to life, exploring the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors.
Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry, and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history.
Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry, and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history.
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Table of Contents
Librarian's Foreword Richard Ovenden
Preface Martin J. Gross
Introduction to the Bodleian Library & College Collections César Merchán-Hamann
Chapter 1 The Laud Collection Giles Mandelbrote
Chapter 2 The Pococke Collection Benjamin Williams
Chapter 3 The Huntington Collection Simon Mills and César Merchán-Hamann
Chapter 4 The Kennicott Collection Theo Dunkelgrün
Chapter 5 The Canonici Collection Dorit Raines
Chapter 6 The Oppenheim Collection Joshua Teplitsky
Chapter 7 The Michael Collection Saverio Campanini
Chapter 8 The Genizah Collection Nadio Vidro
Chapter 9 The College Library Collections Rahel Fronda
From Collectors to Readers Piet van Boxel
Notes
Further Reading
Contributors
Picture Credits
Index
Preface Martin J. Gross
Introduction to the Bodleian Library & College Collections César Merchán-Hamann
Chapter 1 The Laud Collection Giles Mandelbrote
Chapter 2 The Pococke Collection Benjamin Williams
Chapter 3 The Huntington Collection Simon Mills and César Merchán-Hamann
Chapter 4 The Kennicott Collection Theo Dunkelgrün
Chapter 5 The Canonici Collection Dorit Raines
Chapter 6 The Oppenheim Collection Joshua Teplitsky
Chapter 7 The Michael Collection Saverio Campanini
Chapter 8 The Genizah Collection Nadio Vidro
Chapter 9 The College Library Collections Rahel Fronda
From Collectors to Readers Piet van Boxel
Notes
Further Reading
Contributors
Picture Credits
Index
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