
A Page is Worth A Thousand Worlds: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner
18Forty Podcast
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How Did the Talmud Become a Standard in Medieval Manuscripts?
The printed talmud has many, many aspects of an early printed book. What i'm really fasten by is how they really structured the page of the ptalmud. I mean, you had a leaf that originally just had the text itself and we have a structure now that actually looks far different. Theyave commentaries on both sides. It was christian first. This was a standard in mediaeval manuscripts, especially mediaeval law manuscripts. With the inception of print and a movable type, which meant that you had to physically lay out a page, figure out where to put all the letters to make it work on one page,. That largely went away. But gersham son
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