Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Marc Michaels is studying for a PhD at Cambridge University (FAMES). A Strategy and Creative Director, he is also a Sofer S"TaM presenting and writing on topics related to scribal practice (www.sofer.co.uk).

• AcknowledgementsList of Assigned SiglaList of Figures, Tables and ReconstructionsNote on Transliteration1 Introduction1 The ‘Strange Letters’, Visual midrash and Sefer Tagin2 A Brief Introduction to tagin3 Sefer Tagin—A Manual for sofrim (Scribes)4 The Corpus of Textual Witnesses to Sefer Tagin—Core and Secondary Sources5 Some Example Uses in Sifrey Torah6 Adding to the Core Corpus, Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. d. 33/3 (fol. 9), a Known Fragment from the Cairo Genizah2 A New (Partial) Witness1 T-S D1.42—Two New Pages from a Version of Sefer Tagin Identified from the Cairo Genizah2 Dating and Locating T-S D1.423 Identifying Additional Joins, T-S AS 139.152, T-S NS 287.11 and T-S AS 139.1444 An Additional Find, a Secondary Source T-S Misc. 24.182 from the Cairo Genizah5 Dating T-S Misc. 24.1823 Transcription and Analysis1 Diacritical Conventions2 Digital Composition and Font ConstructionPart 1 4 Critical Analysis of T-S D.1421 End of Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter he Form2 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter he3 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter he4 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter he5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter vav6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter vav7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter zayin8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter zayin9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter zayin10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter zayin11 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ḥet12 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ḥet13 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter ḥet14 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter ḥet15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter ṭet16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter ṭet17 Summary—T-S D1.42Part 2 5 Analysis and Reconstruction of Joined Fragments1 Reconstruction of Additional Pages of Our New Core Source2 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter ṭet3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter yod4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter yod5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter kaf6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter kaf7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter kaf sofit8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter kaf sofit9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter kaf sofit10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter kaf sofit11 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter lamed12 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter lamed13 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem14 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem sofit16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem sofit17 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun18 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun19 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter tav20 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter tav21 Conclusion of Sefer Tagin22 Summary—CG Joined FragmentsPart 3 6 Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. 33/3 (fol. 9)1 Critical Analysis of MS. Heb. d. 33/32 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun sofit4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun sofit5 The ‘Upside Down’ nun sofit of Haran6 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun sofit7 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter samekh8 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter samekh9 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ʿayin10 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ʿayin11 Summary—Oxford Heb. 33/9Appendix 1: Transcription and Annotation of T-S Misc. 24.182Appendix 2: Enhanced Imagery of Sefer Tagin from Sassoon 82 (JUD. 022)Bibliography