2022, ISBN: 9780822314059

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New York: Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022. Hardback. 1st Edition. Original publisher's cloth with dust jackets, Folio, 2 volumes (volume 1, xxxv, 4-391 pages; volume 2, … More...

New York: Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022. Hardback. 1st Edition. Original publisher's cloth with dust jackets, Folio, 2 volumes (volume 1, xxxv, 4-391 pages; volume 2, ix, 396-896 pages). Includes color illustrations, facsimiles, and maps. 31 cm. ISBN: 9780578297439; 0578297434 LCCN: 2022-938598. "Conversion table of JTS Ketubbah Collection numbers and the numbers in this catalog" on pages 809-812. Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 789-807) and indexes. "The Art of the Ketubbah includes high-quality color photographs that document the rich variety of decorating and calligraphic styles used by Jewish communities to enhance the ancient text formulas they shared. These contracts reveal social customs, family relationships, economic situations, and a community's interactions with the world around it, spanning thirty-seven countries on four continents from the 10th through the 21st centuries. The catalogue includes 472 full entries, plus two addenda--one of 50 more recently acquired ketubbot and the other of 45 ketubbot from the Cairo Genizah. About one-third of the ketubbot in the collection originate from Italy. The remaining two-thirds include those from elsewhere in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. The earliest ketubbah in the catalogue is from Fustat, Egypt, dated 1023, while the latest is from New York, 2012. The high-quality color photographs, comprehensive indexes, and detailed scholarly commentary on each ketubbah in the collection make this catalog valuable to scholars and the general public alike." (JTS website). SUBJECT(S): Ketubah -- Catalogs. Ketubah in art. Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs. Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Cairo Genizah. OCLC: 1344448175. New Condition. Additional Shipping Costs., New York: Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022, 0, Hardback. New. With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as Maria Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history. It is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the &quot;original&quot; medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology., 6<

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