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JEWISH RECIPES: Where to Find Them & How To Read Them?
Why recipes? Medicine, alchemy, magic, food or ink recipes are transversal to cultural fields. Identified most generally with lists of ingredients accompanied by a set of instructions for their use, recipes have recently experienced a surge of scholarly interest, particularly in the context of the changing epistemes of early modern Europe. Transformations in the modes…
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TITLE PAGE
Title page began to be widely deployed in manuscripts after print as a new medium of textual reproduction became known and popularised. Manuscripts before the introduction of print on a large scale usually did not employ a title page. A text would be normally referred to by its first words, and an initial letter or…
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