Masorah and text criticism in the early modern Mediterranean
Subtitle: Moses ibn Zabara and Menahem de Lonzano
By: Jordan S. Penkower
Contributors: David and Jemima Jeselsohn Collection. Books and manuscripts
Publisher: The Hebrew University Magnes Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789654937863; 9789654937870
Subjects: Textual Criticism; History; Manuscripts; Masorah; Hebrew Manuscripts; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts; Handschrift; Bible; Masora
Description: "The Jeselsohn Collection (also known as the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Collection) ... houses a comprehensive collection of archaeology originating from the Land of Israel, Judaica, books and manuscripts. The present volume is ... centered around a single item from the Books and Manuscripts collection, MS Jeselsohn 5. This manuscript is an illuminated Sefardi Bible, copied on vellum by Moses Ibn Zabara in Spain at the end of the fifteenth century. The manuscript also contains handwritten glosses by Menahem de Lonzano of the sixteenth century"--Pages [11-12].
Notes: "The Jeselsohn collection books and manuscripts"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-318) and indexes.

Text in English interspersed with occasional Hebrew; manuscript facsimiles in Hebrew.