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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: Hebrew Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography for Hebrew Manuscripts

Barco, Javier. The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean: Hebrew Manuscripts and Incunabula in Context (Leiden: Brill, 2015)

Kogman-Appel, Katrine. "Coping With Jewish Pictorial Sources: What Did Jewish Miniaturists Not Paint?" Speculum 75, No. 4 (2000) pp. 816-858

-------"Jewish Art and Cultural Exchange: Theoretical Perspectives," Medieval Encounters 17 No. 1/2 (2011) pp. 1-28

-------"Jewish Art and Non-Jewish Culture: The Dynamics of Borrowing in Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Illumination," Jewish History 15, No. 3 (2002) pp. 187-234

-------Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain, Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World (Leiden: Brill, 2004)

-------Sephardic Ideas in Ashkenaz: Visualizing the Temple in Medieval Regensburg (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009)

Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. Marc Epstein (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)

Thérèse Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (Secaucus: Chartwell Books, 1982)