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This series documents, describes and classifies types of Hebrew scripts on the basis of date-bearing Hebrew manuscripts selected from among the thousands of manuscripts kept in some 200 libraries around the world. It serves as a comparative tool for identifying the types of scripts used in undated manuscripts and estimating their time and provenance. Each of the varied manuscripts described in the series is presented in a two-page spread, in which a sample page, reproduced, as far as possible, in its actual size, faces a graphically produced chart of the manuscript’s characteristic letter shapes (not only those of the sample page). Alongside the chart appear the manuscript’s details: the time and place of writing; the type of writing; the names (if known) of the scribe and, where relevant, the vocalizer; the intended beneficiary; a brief description of the contents; comments by the volume’s authors; and citation information for the displayed page. The volumes in the series are elegantly produced, in large format. The third volume is dual-language in English and Hebrew.
Volume One: Oriental and Yemenite Scripts (1987)
Volume Two: Sefardic Script (2002)
Volume Three: Ashkenazic Script (2017)