Having been unable to hold this workshop for a couple of years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are looking forward to this year’s Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop: Codicology, Palaeography, Art History. This two-week workshop will be led by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (OCHJS and Corpus Christi College), Agata Paluch (Freie Universität Berlin), and César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library) and will take place from 27 June-8 July 2022. The following topics will be explored:
Week 1
- Introduction to the Bodleian Judaica collections and their history
- Codicology I: Hebrew Manuscript Production: Context and Economy
- Codicology II: Book Materials and Formats
- Codicology III: Quire Composition
- Palaeography I: Methodology: Digital Palaeography
- Codicology IV: Page- and Text-Layout
- Illuminated manuscripts: Visual language & the making of the Hebrew manuscript
- Palaeography II: Oriental scripts 1
- Palaeography III: Oriental scripts 2
- Palaeography IV: Sephardi scripts
- Oriental and Sephardi Illuminated Manuscripts 1
- Sephardi Illuminated Manuscripts 2
- Conservation of Hebrew manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
- Palaeography V: Ashkenazi scripts 1
- Palaeography VI: Ashkenazi scripts 2
- Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts 1
- Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts 2
- Italian Illuminated Manuscripts
- Palaeography VII: Italian scripts
- Palaeography VIII: Yemenite scripts & Byzantine scripts
Week 2
- Manuscript Culture in the Early Modern Sephardi World
- Sephardi and North African Script Styles
- Palaeography Practice in Sephardi Scripts
- Hebrew Manuscripts Copied in Italy in the 16th Century: Scribal Practices and Palaeography I
- Hebrew Manuscripts Copied in Italy in the 16th Century: Scribal Practices and Palaeography II
- Intersections of Sephardi Manuscripts and Printed Books
- The Bookworlds of David Oppenheim
- Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place
- Hebrew manuscript bindings at the Bodleian Library
- Early Jewish Book Printing in Europe
- Jewish Printing in Europe II
- Manuscript vs Print Production in Europe
- Historical and cultural contexts of Italian bookmaking (post-15th century)
- Palaeographical features of Jewish Italian manuscripts of 17th & 18th century
- Ashkenazi Script & Scribal Practices: Manuscripts of the 16th century
- Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place II – Practical Session (Reading Book Inscriptions)
- Ashkenazi Script & Scribal Practices: Manuscripts of the 17th century
- Ashkenazi Script & Scribal Practices: Manuscripts of the 18th century
- Palaeography Methodology: Digital Palaeography
For more information about the workshop as a whole, please consult this page. To receive notification regarding calls for applications for the workshop in future years, please email our Academic Administrator, Ms Priscilla Lange, at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk and request to be added to our activities email list.