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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.

Of the 32 manuscripts presented in Part IV, ten belong to the Firkovich Collection in St. Petersburg, whose contents originated in the Middle East; eight – seven of them Genizah fragments – belong to the Bodleian Library in Oxford; and the remainder are kept in various libraries in Europe. The proportion of manuscripts surviving from outside the Middle East is thus higher than in the earlier dated manuscripts, as is the proportion of whole or partial codices as against fragments.

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