The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
Worlds Most Important Jewish Library

alls for every human ailment, and there
is n chuckle in DIR. Marks voice as he
reads the cure for Insomnia Secure
the tooth of black dog. Place it I'M
der the pillow OF the patient. He will
sleep until the toot his removed And
here is quit-claiin deed of 14s6 and
"Ghet" even older. And here are orig
inal works of mathematics and He
brew translation, by Major Alquades,
of the ethics of Aristotle, written in
1881
But let DIR. Marx, the distinguished
scholar who is exploring this great
treasure-mine, speak of this greatest
jewish library in the history of the
world:
after having striven fairly success
fully for twenty years to create cen
ter in which rare Hebrew books and
manuscripts would become accessible to
the Amerlcan-Jewish scholar. our re-
sources have been tremendously in
creased and strengthened by the acIui-
sitiun of the famous library Of the we'll
known collector of Hebrew books and
manuscripts. Mr.. Elkan n. Adler. of.
London. The treasures which Mr.. Adj
Ter brought together in third of II
century from the four corners of the
earth in the course Of his various trav-
els now grace our collections.
The Men who Made it Possible
DIR. Cyrus Adler. acting president of
the Jewish Theological Seminary, was
enabled to secure this marvellous collec-
tion through the initiative of Mr. Nor
timer L. SchifT, added by Mr.. Louis
Marshall Felix NJ. Warburg Henry S.
Hendricks, Jules e. Hastbaum, of Phil
adelphia; Israel ITnterberg. Nathan
Miller, Herbert II. lehman, Jacob Ep-
! stein. Of Baltimore: Sol. NJ. Loupis and
Joseph Strock, Daniel Guggenheim.
| Felix Fuld, an dOtller friends of our
institution. The purchase was conclud-
ell through the Kind services of our
friend. DIR. A. S. w. Rosenback, on the
10Th of March. 1t is not possible at
| this moment when owing to our lack of
! accommodations. only small part of
the library has been unpacked. to give
proper account of its wealth. Only
n few remarks can he given in the pres
cnt place. Our collection of Hebrew
! incunable consisting of sixty-fivc items
i will I've increased by seventeen, four of
| them unique.
4 The latter are Il copy of Bohais
commentary on the Bentateuch. in two
volumes. printed In Spain, 1491, and
three Talmudic treaties. Ketuboth,
14s7; Gittcn. 1885. ana Baba Aosiah
1859. printed by Scncibo,. besides HUI
lin. 1880: we further got copy of the
first printed edition of the Pentateuch,
Bologna. 1852: the first edition of the
Roman Malizer. SOncarO. 14S5, and Ca
sal Mnggiere, 1856. and very rare
Soncino prayer hook. printed on vellum
| 1--WE have paper copies of these three
boclls) Pcntuteuch Naples. 1i91. print
cd equally on vcllum and the second
volume of the Lisbon Pentateuch. 1491
of which we have II vellum copy, print
cd on paper. the Pentateuch of 1880,
with Tarsum and Rashi; the Former
\ Prophets. I.oiria. 14D4, with Targum.
1 I<imhi and Gorsonidcs of which we
mcnt Of the first Hebrew Bible. Sencino
1 1lSS: as wei as an unknown Bible in
cuihabulum the fourth volume of Tur.
Picve de Sacco, 1475: of which we have
the first volume: Tur Orah Haydn,
I.oiria. 1895: as well as the school edi-
lror. printed by Soncino: Joshua Hale
| yis IIelLot Olnm, on 14!W; and Josip-
pom. NIantua ca 1850. Besides these
new volumes we find fragment of per-
I haps twenty others, and are able to
complete many of our old volumes.
''On non-Hebrew incurabula SO far
4 six in Latin and two in German have
4 turned up. three of Them not recorded
in the census. They are ''Bcwanhrung
I tlass die dieser Welt (Bsle 1900, Hahn
1 1iJSl Alexander de NOmo. Constilia
contra iudco $ fenerantos tHain SOD !;
Luca de Bergo San Sepulero, Summa
de lroportiono ct proportionalita. Ven
onsis, Contra Judeos, Rome. Hcrold
\ ,tlfain 93O6) johannes de Sacrobusto,
Splluericum oposculum. Venice. Ratdclt.
! 14S2 CLAIM 14110l : another edition OF
the same. Venice. 1I91 Hahn HID !:
Abraham Iacuto, Almanach Per'pet-
mum. I.oiria. Dortas. 1496 tHain
(Hain 1G2GG. The last is the most In
tcresting for US. author and printer be-
Jes. This is the book which Columbus
used on his travels and from which he
prophecied an eclipse by which lie so
much impressed the Indians. We, also,
mt thn sncnl1l clitinu of this hook Ven