Essays on the making of the early Hebrew book / by Marvin Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Marvin J., author.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; 0926-2261 v. 68.

Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; volume 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing, Hebrew--History.

Printing, Hebrew.

History.

Hebrew imprints--History.

Hebrew imprints.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 695 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"A varied collection of articles on early Hebrew printing, encompassing motifs on title pages such as lions, eagles, and fish as well as the entitling of Hebrew books. The next section is on authors and places of publication addressing such diverse topics as a much republished book opposed to gambling, authors of books on philology and on the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-49); of articles on diverse and disparate places of printing, Chierie, Hamburg, Offenbach, Verona, and Slavuta, generally small barely remembered publishers of interesting works, and in the last location properly identifying the printer of the highly regarded Slavuta press. Included is a section on Christian-Hebraism with articles on Altdorf where polemical books were published and another on William Wotten, a Christian vicar who published the first English translation of Mishnayot. The result is a wide-ranging series of articles highlighting the activities of early Hebrew presses and printers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Eagle Motif in 16th and 17th Century Hebrew Books

The Lion Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and Pressmarks

The Fish Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and as Pressmarks

Keter Shem Tov: A Study in the Entitling of Books, Here Limited to One Title Only

Entitling Hebrew Books from Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)

Belvedere and Kuru Tsheshme: Sephardic Printing in Late-Sixteenth-Century Constantinople

Kesef Nivhar, Kesef Mezukkak, Kesef Zaruf, and Other Works: The Career and Books of Rabbi Josiah ben Joseph Pinto

The Laniados: A Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Family of Sages in Aram Zova (Aleppo, Haleb) and the Books That They Wrote

Benjamin ben Immanuel Mussafia: A Study in Contrasts

Sur me-Ra Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena's Popular and Much Reprinted Treatise against Gambling

R. Nathan Nata ben Moses Hannover: The Life and Works of an Illustrious and Tragic Figure

Offenbach Revisited: An Enigma Reexamined

An Early-Seventeenth-Century Hebrew Press in Chieri: A Passing Phenomenon, a Brief Mirage

Hamburg: A Varied Early Hebrew Press

Hebrew Printing in Verona Resumed, but Briefly

On the Identity of the First Printers in Slavuta

Hebrew Printing in Altdorf: A Brief Christian-Hebraist Phenomenon

Christian-Hebraism in England: William Wotten and the First Translation of the Mishnah into English

Concise and Succinct: Sixteenth-Century Editions of Medieval Halakhic Compendiums

Unicums, Fragments, and Other Hebrew Book Rarities

Who Can Discern His Errors? Misdates, Errors, Deceptions, and Other Variations in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise: Revisited

Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts

Adversity and Authorship: As Revealed in the Introductions of Early Hebrew Books

Seventeenth-Century Potpourri on Megillat Esther

Yitzi'at Mitzra'im (The Exodus) in Print: The First Editions of the Printed Haggadah

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Essays on the making of the early Hebrew book

ISBN:

9789004441156

9004441158

OCLC:

1204343538