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In the series Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi: Series Hebraica; published under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the Union académique internationale.
Published jointly with the CNRS, Paris, and Brepols, Belgium.

This series is among the products of the Academy's Hebrew Palaeography Project, whose goal is to document the codicological characteristics – graphic, technical and physical – of all the surviving mediaeval Hebrew manuscripts bearing notations of date, place and copyist, to process and classify these characteristics, and thus to place at the disposal of scholars substantiated means for identifying the provenance and estimating the date of other manuscripts. The collection will include, in chronological order, all of the surviving Hebrew manuscripts in libraries throughout the world bearing dates up to 1280. Each is subjected to a detailed codicological analysis, describing the methods of its production, its design and its subsequent history. All the colophons are transcribed and translated. The manuscripts are accompanied by a rich selection of reproductions in actual size. In French and Hebrew.

Part II presents 22 manuscripts bearing dates, half of them fragments taken from the Cairo Genizah. Of the rest, nine are in the Firkovich Collection in St. Petersburg, and one, produced in Italy in 1072/3, is the earliest colophon bearing a date that has survived from Europe.

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