Hebrew liturgical text
F-ewud
This entry is based on one written Justine Isserles for the Books Within Books -- Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries project (see bibliography below).
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
The present condition makes analysis difficult.
Original Condition
The present condition makes analysis difficult.
Current Condition
The location of the two parchment leaves from which the offsets were made, used as pastedowns in the incunabulum X 102, are unknown. The text is in mirror image and the imprint on the boards is only partial, making the text unreadable in places.
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The surviving boards show the traces of the host volume's brown leather binding. There is evidence of significant wood worm damage.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
No decoration.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Hebrew
- Title Mahzor?
- Content Description
The leaves were from a Hebrew liturgical text. The two-column layout and script suggest a text from a large Mahzor.
Host Volume
15th-century brown leather binding on wooden boards.
Bibliography
On the host volume:
Marianne Lugenbühl and Heinz Bothien. Die Inkunabel-Schätze des Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittigen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, p. 48.
On the fragments:
Isserles, Justine. frag. 1 (front of volume). Books Within Books -- Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. 25 April 2025.
Isserles, Justine. frag. 2 (back of volume). Books Within Books -- Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. 25 April 2025.
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