Studies in the making of the early Hebrew book
By: Marvin J. Heller.
Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture -- v. 15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9789004157590
Subjects: Printing, Hebrew -- History; Hebrew imprints -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mars and Minerva on the Hebrew title page; title: The printer's mark of Immanuel Benveniste and its later influence; title: Mirror-image monograms as printers' devices on title pages of Hebrew books printed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: The cover design, "The printer's mark of Marco Antonio Giustiniani and the printing houses that utilized it"; title: Chronograms on title pages in selected eighteenth century editions of the Talmud; title: Adderet Eliyahu: a study in the titling of Hebrew books; title: Designing the Talmud: the origins of the printed Talmudic page; title: Early Hebrew printing from Lublin to Safed: the journeys of Eliezer ben Isaac Ashkenazi; title: "There were in Padua almost as many Hebrew printers as Hebrew books": the sixteenth century Hebrew press in Padua; title: Ambrosius Froben, Israel Zifroni, and Hebrew printing in Freiburg-im-Breisgau; title: A little known chapter in Hebrew printing: Francesco dalle Donne and the beginning of Hebrew printing in Verona in the sixteenth century; title: Jedidiah ben Isaac Gabbai and the first decade of Hebrew printing in Livorno; title: Abraham ben Raphael Meldola and the resumption of printing in Livorno; title: David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida and his Migdal David: accusations of plagiarism in eighteenth-century Amsterdam; title: Moses Benjamin Wulff, court Jew; title: Moses ben Abraham Avinu and his printing-presses; title: Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi's Dictionary of Hebrew authors (Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e delle loro opere); title: The Hebrew book-trade as reflected in book catalogues; title: Observations on the worker to book production ratio in an eighteenth century Hebrew printing-house; title: And the work, the work of heaven, was performed on Shabbat; title: His hand did not leave hers until he was grown: two little known works from Moses Cordovero (Ramak); title: The Bath-Sheba/Moses de Medina Salonika edition of Berakhot: an unknown attempt to circumvent the Inquisition's ban on the printing of the Talmud in 16th-century Italy; title: Observations on a little known edition of tractate Niddah (Prague, c. 1608) and its relationship to the Talmudic methodology of the Maharal of Prague; title: Observations on the reprinting of Kesef Nivhar.