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Manuscript to print and print to print: on the transmission history of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Orah Hayyim

Vidro, N; (2018) Manuscript to print and print to print: on the transmission history of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Orah Hayyim. Zutot: Perspectives on the Jewish History and Culture , 15 (1) pp. 73-93. 10.1163/18750214-12151074. Green open access

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Abstract

This article is a case study in the transition of texts from manuscript to print. It looks at all surviving manuscripts and 15th–16th-centuries printed editions of Jacob ben Asher’s ʾArbaʿah Turim, Tur Orah Hayyim. Based on a close textual investigation of Tur Orah Hayyim, chapter 428, it identifies and dates manuscript clusters, and establishes how different imprints are linked with the manuscript tradition and with each other. The article suggests that the Soncino 1490 imprint by Solomon Soncino exerted a crucial influence on the printed text of Tur Orah Hayyim. Whereas before imprints were independent and closely associated with individual manuscripts, Soncino 1490 became the archetype for all but one subsequent 15th–16th-centuries imprints, and direct dependence on manuscripts subsided.

Type: Article
Title: Manuscript to print and print to print: on the transmission history of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Orah Hayyim
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1163/18750214-12151074
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1163/18750214-12151074
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © Nadia Vidro, 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC License at the time of publication.
Keywords: ʾArbaʿah Turim, Tur Orah Hayyim, Soncino, printing, manuscripts, textual transmission, calendar
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056367
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