Florence, FIR NAZ MS. Magl II.I.7

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy)

Florence, FIR NAZ MS. Magl II.I.7 - Square

The letters ‘יצחק ‘are inscribed in tractate Bekhorot on page and apparently hint at the
name of the scribe.
Tractate Berakhot was written by a number of other scribes and placed at the
beginning of the volume of the Order of Qodashim

https://bavli.genizah.org/Content/pdfFile/Introductions_B/Introductions_Eng/Bbackground%20to%20complete%20mss%202019.pdf page 8

Ashkenazi

Square

Calligraphic

Bookhand

Gothic

• In the middle
• Attached to the headline
• Ascenders go above the headline
• Descenders descend below the baseline

Stable

• Stable
• Equal to the height of the line of writing

Smaller than the width of an average he

• Variable
• No space (letters touch each other)
• Smaller than the width of an average vav

Slow

Nesting

Regular size

• Ascenders are equal to the height of the average letter
• Descenders are shorter than the height of the average letter

• Downstrokes are parallel
• Horizontal strokes are parallel
• Ascenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Descenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Ascenders are parallel among them
• Descenders are parallel among them

There is shading