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1 HISPANIA JUDAICA BULLETIN Articles, Reviews, Bibliography and Manuscripts on Sefarad Editors: Yom Tov Assis and Raquel Ibáñez-Sperber No /2013 Hispania Judaica The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2 Contents Editorial 1 Articles English and Spanish Section SIMCHA EMANUEL, The Struggle for Provençal Halakhic Independence in the Thirteenth Century 5 DAVID M. BUNIS, The Whole Hebrew Reading Tradition of Ottoman Judezmo Speakers. The Medieval Iberian Roots 15 JOSÉ HINOJOSA MONTALVO, Indumentaria y signos de identidad entre los judíos valencianos 69 RICARDO MUÑOZ SOLLA, Padrones y antroponimia judía del Condado de Treviño en el siglo ERIC LAWEE, Aharon Aboulrabi: Maverick Exegete from Aragonese Sicily 131 YOM TOV ASSIS, From Netilat Yadayim (Washing of the Hands) to the Baptismal Font: A Hebrew Inscription from a Sefardi Synagogue to the Church in Siculana, Sicily 163 SUSANA BASTOS MATEUS & JAMES W. NELSON NOVOA, A Sixteenth Century Voyage of Legitimacy: The Paths of Jácome and António da Fonseca from Lamego to Rome and Beyond 169 JUAN IGNACIO PULIDO SERRANO, Pedro de Baeça, un empresario de origen judío: La administración de las aduanas españolas hacia LUIS GÓMEZ CANSECO, Lope hebraizante: La Jerusalén bíblica en la Jerusalén conquistada 233 JOSÉ ALBERTO RODRIGUES DA SILVA TAVIM, A Lover³s Discourse: Fragments. The Peninsula, Portugal and its Empire in the Iberian Jews³ Discourse: KENNETH BROWN, From Sepharad to Ashkenaz, from a Picaro to a Schlemiel: The Distinctiveness of 17 th and 18 th Century Sephardic Creative

3 Bibliography and Manuscripts BIBLIOGRAPHY 333 NITAI SHINAN, Spanish Manuscripts of Works by Fifteenth Century Spanish Authors Contributors 367 Hebrew Section LIUBOV CHERNIN, Severus, Bishop of Menorca SHALOM SADIK, The Structure of the Soul and Freedom of Choice in the Thought of Rabbi Yehudah Halevi HANNAH DAVIDSON, th Century YOCHEVED BEERI, Portuguese Judaizers³ Prayers in 17th Century Spain: Continuity or Creativity?

4 Spanish Manuscripts of Works by Fifteenth Century Spanish Authors 1 Nitai Shinan Arama, Ytshaq Ben Moshe Yad Avshalom Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Lutzki 463 [IMHM 23739] Description: Spanish handwriting, l. 2 Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem. 525 [IMHM 45944] Description: Oriental handwriting Maamar al Oreh Hagalut u Biat Hamasiah XV- Biblioteca Angelica, Roma. Or. 53 [IMHM 11702] Description: Spanish handwriting Aqedat Yitshaq Talmud Tora, Livorno. 77 [IMHM 49076] Description: Italian handwriting, pp Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. Cod. Hebr 26 [IMHM 1162] Description: Italian handwriting, pp Manuscripts at the Jewish National Library of Israel. The number in brackets refers to 2 The letter "l" indicates leaf/leaves. [Hispania Judaica

5 Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Rab [IMHM 50796] Description: Spanish handwriting, 2 l. Biblioteca Angelica, Roma. Or. 58 [IMHM 11706] Description: Italian handwriting, 1518, 775 l. Russian National Library, St. Petersburg. Evr. II A 782 [IMHM 65640] Description: Oriental handwriting, 2 l. Perush Ketuvim (The book of Esther) Frankfurt a M - Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek Oct. 185 [IMHM 22031] Description: Oriental handwriting, l. Perush Ketuvim (The Five Scrolls) Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Lutzki 463 [IMHM 23739] Description: Spanish handwriting, l. Perush Ketuvim (The Book of Ecclesiastes) XV Century Real Biblioteca de El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial. G-IV-14 [IMHM 10080] Description: Spanish handwriting, pp Perush Ketuvim (The Book of Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Ruth) Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien. Cod hebr. 178 [IMHM 1145] Description: Byzantine handwriting, pp [360

6 Perush Ktuvim (The book of Esther, Ecclesiastes) Trinity College, Cambridge. F 12 5 [IMHM 12149] Description: Spanish handwriting Perush Ketuvim (The book of Ruth, Lamentations, The Song of Songs) ( XV Century Biblioteca Palatina, Parma. Cod. Parm [IMHM 13366] Description: Spanish handwriting, 61 l. Perush Ketuvim (The Song of Songs) Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien. Cod hebr. 178 [IMHM 1145] Description: Byzantine handwriting, pp R. Yosef Albo Sefer Ha- iqarim XIV-XV Century Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. heb. 743 [IMHM 11668] Description: Spanish Handwritng, 275 l. XV Century Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg. Ms. Levy 163 [IMHM 1598] Description: Italian handwriting, 188 l. Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana, Firenze. Plut. I. 42 [IMHM 17647] Mossad Harav Kook, Jerusalem. Ol 277 [IMHM 20177] Description: Italian handwriting, 151 l. [361

7 British Library, London. Or [IMHM 5938] Russian State Library, Moscow. Ms. Guenzburg 1114 [IMHM 48317] Description: Spanish handwriting, pp.1-2, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Ms [IMHM 28519] Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Ms [IMHM 49595] Description: Spanish handwriting, 22 l. Bodleian Library, Oxford. MS Hunt 255 [IMHM 22113] Bodleian Library, Oxford. MS Mich. 503 [IMHM 22114] Description: Spanish handwriting, 219 l. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. heb. 740 [IMHM 11665] Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. heb. 741 [IMHM 11666] Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. heb. 742 [IMHM 11667] Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. heb. 744 [IMHM 12050] Description: Spanish Handwritng, 201 l. École Rabbinque, Paris. 97 [IMHM 34226] Description: Spanish handwriting, 158 l. Biblioteca Palatina, Parma. Cod. Parm [IMHM 27570] Description: Italian handwriting, 71 l. Biblioteca Palatina, Parma. Cod. Parm [IMHM 13437] [362

8 Biblioteca Palatina, Parma. Cod. Parm [IMHM 13842] Biblioteca Palatina, Parma. Cod. Parm [IMHM 13742] Biblioteca Comunale, Reggio Emilia. Ms. Vari E 132 [IMHM 139] Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome. Or. 79 [IMHM 416] Accademia dei Concordi, Silvestriana, Rovigo. 220 [IMHM 9] Description: Italian handwriting, 176 l. Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy, St. Petersburg. C 22 [IMHM 69291] Description: Spanish handwriting, 209 l. Russian National Library, St. Petersburg. Evr, I 469 [IMHM 51350] Russian National Library, St. Petersburg. Evr, II A 574 [IMHM 65504] Description: Spanish handwriting, 2 l. Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican. ebr. 257 [IMHM 316] XV- Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid. Hebr. 2 [IMHM 7367] Description: 162 l. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Ms [IMHM 28711] Description: Spanish handwriting, 177 l. [363

9 Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig. B.H. qu. 33 [IMHM 20966] Description: Ashkenazi handwriting, 1577, pp Bodleian Library, Oxford. MS Opp. 596 [IMHM 22115] Description: Spanish handwriting, , 295 l. [

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