12 juin 2021
Wissem Gueddich, « Fragments of the Halakhot Gedoloth from a 12th c. manuscript Found in Bologna and Leipzig University Library bookbinding* », Books within Books, ID : 10670/1.vz6z5j
Prof. Mauro Perani Universita di Bologna It is not rare that sheets from a manuscript dismembered in one town and reused in bookbindings became scattered across Italian provinces and regions, and even in other countries, sometimes hundreds or thousands of kilometres from the place in which they were reused. How can one explain the reasons why different sheets of the same original Hebrew codex are found in locations so far from each other? One possible explanation is that an itinerant deal...