ISBN:
9789004157590
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 419 S
,
Ill
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish history and culture 15
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
686.2/1924
Keywords:
Talmud
;
Printing, Hebrew History
;
Hebrew imprints History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Buch
;
Buchdruck
;
Textgeschichte
;
Book industries and trade History
;
Hebrew imprints History
;
Printing, Hebrew History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Juden
;
Hebräisch
;
Buchdruck
;
Buchherstellung
;
Verlag
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Description / Table of Contents:
Mars and Minerva on the Hebrew title page -- The printer's mark of Immanuel Benveniste and its later influence -- Mirror-image monograms as printers' devices on title pages of Hebrew books printed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The cover design, "The printer's mark of Marco Antonio Giustiniani and the printing houses that utilized it" -- Chronograms on title pages in selected eighteenth century editions of the Talmud -- Adderet Eliyahu: a study in the titling of Hebrew books -- Designing the Talmud: the origins of the printed Talmudic page -- Early Hebrew printing from Lublin to Safed: the journeys of Eliezer ben Isaac Ashkenazi -- "There were in Padua almost as many Hebrew printers as Hebrew books": the sixteenth century Hebrew press in Padua -- Ambrosius Froben, Israel Zifroni, and Hebrew printing in Freiburg-im-Breisgau -- A little known chapter in Hebrew printing: Francesco dalle Donne and the beginning of Hebrew printing in Verona in the sixteenth century -- Jedidiah ben Isaac Gabbai and the first decade of Hebrew printing in Livorno -- Abraham ben Raphael Meldola and the resumption of printing in Livorno -- David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida and his Migdal David: accusations of plagiarism in eighteenth-century Amsterdam -- Moses Benjamin Wulff, court Jew -- Moses ben Abraham Avinu and his printing-presses -- Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi's Dictionary of Hebrew authors (Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e delle loro opere) -- The Hebrew book-trade as reflected in book catalogues -- Observations on the worker to book production ratio in an eighteenth century Hebrew printing-house -- And the work, the work of heaven, was performed on Shabbat -- His hand did not leave hers until he was grown: two little known works from Moses Cordovero (Ramak) -- 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 -- Observations on a little known edition of tractate Niddah (Prague, c. 1608) and its relationship to the Talmudic methodology of the Maharal of Prague -- Observations on the reprinting of Kesef Nivhar
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