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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Jewish Scribes and Christian Patrons : The Hebraica Collection of Johann Jakob Fugger
Beteiligte:
STEIMANN, ILONA
Erschienen:
University of Chicago Press, 2017
Erschienen in:Renaissance Quarterly
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0034-4338;
1935-0236
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Beschreibung:
<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>