Gold, Leonard Singer - A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts

New York / Oxford, The New York Public Library / Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in Jewish History, being a sterling condition softcover copy in tall quarto format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 224 pp., with 16 full color plates, a checklist of the exhibition from which this catalogue is drawn, a bibliography, a glossary, a list of contributors, and an index of illustrations. Foreword by Vartan Gregorian, an introduction by Gold, then chapters that include "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Light on the Text and the Canon of the Bible," Frank Moore Cross; "How Hebrew Manuscripts are Made," Malachi Beit-Arie; "The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts," Evelyn M. Cohen; "The Hebrew Manuscript as a Source for the Study of History and Literature," Menahem Schmelzer; "The Hebrew Book in a Christian World," David B. Ruderman; "Publishing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature," Michael W. Grunberger; "Text and Texture: Early Adventures in the Fourth Dimension," Chaim Potok among others. Quite fine internally.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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