In this article, I analyse Hebrew manuscripts fragments discovered in the context of the research project Books within Books. Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries (BwB, http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com). After a general presentation of the typology and content of the findings, I focus on Hebrew fragments that once belonged to a unique kabbalistic miscellanea (summing up overall twenty fragments) and I try to virtually reconstruct the codicological and textual features of this anthology to be dated on palaeographical grounds to the fifteenth century. The diagrams extant in four fragments of this miscellanea turn out to be extremely precious for the virtual reconstruction of the original mise en page of the copy
Abate, E. (2025). Hebrew Fragments and Kabbalistic Diagrams in the Urbino State Archive. Leiden : Brill [10.1163/9789004704169_017].
Hebrew Fragments and Kabbalistic Diagrams in the Urbino State Archive
Emma Abate
2025
Abstract
In this article, I analyse Hebrew manuscripts fragments discovered in the context of the research project Books within Books. Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries (BwB, http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com). After a general presentation of the typology and content of the findings, I focus on Hebrew fragments that once belonged to a unique kabbalistic miscellanea (summing up overall twenty fragments) and I try to virtually reconstruct the codicological and textual features of this anthology to be dated on palaeographical grounds to the fifteenth century. The diagrams extant in four fragments of this miscellanea turn out to be extremely precious for the virtual reconstruction of the original mise en page of the copyI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


