Preface -- The Many Lives of the 'Bible of Esdras': Proposals for a Long-term Investigation / Rita De Tata -- The "Ezra Scroll" of Bologna: Vicissitudes of an Archetype between Memory and Oblivion / Saverio Campanini -- Textual and Para-textual Devices of the Ancient Proto-Sephardic Bologna Torah Scroll / Mauro Perani -- The Making of the Bologna Scroll: Palaeography and Scribal Traditions / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- The 12th-13th Century Torah Scroll in Bologna - How It Differs from Contemporary Scrolls / Jordan S. Penkower -- The Sefer Torah of Biella: History of the Unearthing and Initial Investigations / Amedeo Spagnoletto -- Criteria for Dating the Sefer Torah Meran 1 and Its Peculiar System of Otiyyot Meshunnot / Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann -- The Torah Scroll Fragment from the Parochial Archives in Romont (Switzerland) / Justine Isserles, Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann. "The Ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna: Features and History contains studies on the most ancient, complete, Pentateuch scroll known to date, considered by the Jews of Perpignan the archetypal autograph written by Ezra the scribe. The scroll was rediscovered by Mauro Perani in 2013 at the University Library of Bologna. In this volume, leading specialists study the history, structure and different halakhot or norms adopted in the pre-Maimonidean scroll. The Hebrew text is very close to the Aleppo codex, and the scroll was probably copied in a Kabbalistic circle near Perpignan, ca. 1200, where the use of tagin and curled letters flourished, attributing to them mystical and exoteric meanings"-- | 
The ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna [0,25 mb]