Summary This volume brings together studies about books as artefacts within transitional zones. The history of the book from the handwritten to the printed medium is understood as a process marked by innovation and social change, but also by disorientation and bewilderment. The journey of a book from production to use was determined by a complex set of factors: communication among authors, makers of books, patrons, and readership; the emergence of publishers; and decisions to be made concerning production and publication. These factors underwent tremendous changes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries owing to the spread of printing and the rise of Humanism in Europe. Particular focus is put on the physical evidence of books, both handwritten and printed, and what it can tell us about a book's production and its reception. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Katrin Kogman-Appel and Ilona Steimann Part One: Media Change Chapter 1: Changes in Bookmaking: Joel ben Simeon's Manuscripts in the Transition from Customized to Mass Production? Rodica?Herlo-Lukowski Chapter 2: Joel ben Simeon in Transition Evelyn M. Cohen Chapter 3: Jewish Books between Portugal to the Early Sefardi Diaspora.? Débora Marques de Matos Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Printing Self: Egodocuments and Micro-Egodocuments in Jewish Paratexts from Manuscript to Print Avriel Bar-Levav Chapter 5: From Manuscript to Print and Back Again. Two Case Studies in Late Sixteenth-Century Jewish Book Culture Pavel Sládek Chapter 6: Lishmah Qedushat Sefer Torah or the Impossibility of Printing a Kosher Torah Scroll from Rabbinic Perspectives Annett Martini Part Two: The Craft of Editing Chapter 7: The 1514 'Grace after Meals and Sabbath Hymns and Qiddush' and the Experimental Beginnings of Woodcut Illustrations in Prague Sarit Shalev-Eyni Chapter 8: Hayyim Shahor and Jewish Life in Sixteenth-Century Ashkenaz Lucia Raspe Chapter 9: Of Roots and Signs: Printing Ashkenazi Responsa in Sixteenth-Century Venice Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Part Three: Reading Chapter 10: The Masorete and His Readers: A Relationship Obscured Now Rediscovered Dalia-Ruth Halperin Chapter 11: Early Hebrew Printing and the Quality of Reading: A Praxeological Study Hanna Liss Chapter 12: Hegemonies of Reading. Layout, Materiality, and Authorship in Early Hebrew Prints Federico Dal Bo ? Part Four: Confiscation and Destruction Chapter 14: Burning the Talmud. Before and After Print David Stern Chapter 15: The Bookless Talmud and the Talmud Book: The Loss of Books in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Yakov Z. Mayer ? Part Five: Christian Collections Chapter 16: A Medieval Hebrew Psalter with Latin Glosses (MS Paris, BnF hébreu 113) and Its Cambridge Connection ? Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Chapter 17: A Forced Journey between Two Faiths. The Hebrew Manuscripts of the University of Vienna Ilona Steimann? Chapter 18: 'Ben Hacane Liber qui dicitur Pelia'. Egidio da Viterbo's Kabbalistic Excerpts Saverio Campanini? Chapter 19: Alfonso de Zamora and Hebrew Manuscripts on Grammar and Exegesis in Sixteenth-Century Spain Javier del Barco Chapter 20: On the Beginnings of Christian Hebraist Bibliography in the Sixteenth Century Maximilian de Molière Manuscript Index General Index