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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Jewish Scribes and Christian Patrons : The Hebraica Collection of Johann Jakob Fugger
Contributor:
STEIMANN, ILONA
imprint:
University of Chicago Press, 2017
Published in:Renaissance Quarterly
Language:
English
ISSN:
0034-4338;
1935-0236
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Acquiring Hebrew books was a common practice among Christian humanists. More surprising, perhaps, is that a large group of Hebrew manuscripts was produced for a Christian library. A Jewish scribal workshop organized by Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–75) in Venice—here analyzed for the first time—is one of the rarest examples of this phenomenon that emerged out of Renaissance book culture. To understand Fugger’s extensive bibliophilic enterprise, this essay examines the circulation and dissemination of Hebrew texts from the Jewish bookshelf among Christians, the relationships between Christian patrons and Jewish scribes, and the role of manuscripts as agents of print and as objects of collecting.</p>