Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Book

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction
Pt. I	Texts
	Before the Middle Ages	19
	The Middle Ages	36
Pt. II	Books
	Codicology	102
	Writing: calligraphic and personal scripts	170
	The scribe	204
App	abbreviations, acrostics and the meaning of the Hebrew letters
Pt. III	The history of books and texts
	The life and death of manuscripts	234
	Libraries	257
	Questions of method: codicology and palaeography	265
	Texts, copies and text-editions	269
	Judgement on readings and the edition of texts	287
Pt. IV	Some manuscripts
	Solomon ibn Gabirol: Liturgical poem (Azharot)	296
	Joseph ben Simon Kara: Commentary on Isaiah	298
	Commentary on the visions of Ezekiel from an Ashkenazic pietist work	300
	Al-Bitruji: Digest of Celestial Physics, from Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen's Exposition of Science	302
	Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil: Small Book of Commandments	304
	Isaac Israeli: Treatise on Urines	307
	The Book of the Pietists, long recension	309
	Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed	313
	Abraham ben Alexander of Cologne: Keter Shem Tov	314
	On Stones	317
	Bibliography	320
	Index of manuscripts cited	336
	Index of names and subjects	339
	Index of modern authors and editors cited	346