A new lecture series at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne, all welcome 👉🏼 #earlymodern #skystorians #jewishstudies @unicologne.bsky.social @mbikoeln.bsky.social

Eugene Matanky, "The Fate of Moses Codovero's #Autograph #Manuscripts: From Sixteenth-Century Safed to Twentieth-Century #Jerusalem" via Yeshiva University Libraries youtu.be/C_Ju-F-9J2w?... #JewishBooks #JewishManuscripts #BookHistory #Kabbalah

A bit of news! I have accepted a tenured position at Denison University. They recruited me to chair their Religion department, architect a rebuild of its curriculum, and help launch a Jewish studies program. I formally begin July 1st.

Truly honored to receive the 2025 J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award alongside Jake Benson. Thank you to everyone who supported this research journey! #ManuscriptStudies #PhDLife

A hand writing with an apparatus that has two writing quills.

How to speed up writing before the computer age. This suggestion of writing with 2 quills came from a schoolmaster and was formulated in 1692 Nuremberg, Germany. #skystorians

watermark

#Watermark Wednesday. A very nice anchor in circle from the 1580s used in Safed

Showing a class a watermark

Such a pleasure being able to guest lecture on "Watermarks, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them" @JTS Library last week.
#Bookhistory #manuscripts #watermarks

YU copy with Ashkenazi additions

Harvard Copy with Ashkenazi additions

Printed in Pa'amon ve-Rimon, Amsterdam, 1704

From recent library trips, in Ashkenazi-owned, Pardes Rimonim (Krakow, 1591), I found these additions made in Harvard and YU copies. I then realized that I had seen these addition in the 1704 print Pa'amon ve-Rimon. Thus, the printer had used a similar tradition.
#Kabbalah #Bookhistory