Yale University Library Research Guides: History of the Bible &amp; the Book: Jewish Manuscripts

Making of the Jewish Book

Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book by Marvin J. Heller The largest section of the volume is concerned with the makers and places of Hebrew books, mainly addressing book-makers poorly remembered or controversial and print-shops that issued a small number of books in a brief period of time.
Call Number: DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reference Room, Z228.H4 H442X 2013
Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book by Marvin J. Heller A collection of twenty-four essays on various aspects of Hebrew book production in the 16th through 18th centuries. The subject matter encompasses little known printing-presses, makers of Hebrew books, and book arts.
The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern Explores the Jewish Bible as a material object from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present moment.
Jewish Literary Cultures by David Stern The first volume deals with texts and topics from ancient Jewish literature; the second volume treats Jewish literature from the medieval and early modern periods; the third, modern and contemporary Jewish literary texts.

Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages by Colette Sirat; Nicholas De Lange (Edited and Translated by) An overview of Hebrew manuscripts during the medieval period.
Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Online) by Katrin Kogman-Appel This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. The volume elaborates in particular on the cultural history of the decorative motifs and types of ornamentation in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish Jewry.
Latin-Into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies (Online) by Resianne Fontaine (Editor); Gad Freudenthal (Editor) Sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century.
Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused As Book-Bindings in Italy by Mauro Perani (Editor) A survey on about sixteen thousand Hebrew manuscript fragments reused as book-bindings and preserved in hundreds of libraries and archives in Italy.