| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 695 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Brill's series in Jewish studies,
0926-2261 ;
volume 68
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Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 68.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Printing, Hebrew -- History.
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Hebrew imprints -- History.
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Hebrew imprints |
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Printing, Hebrew |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heller, Marvin J.. Essays on the making of the early Hebrew book Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004441156 (DLC) 2020053981 |
| ISBN |
9004441166 electronic book |
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9789004441163 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004441156 hardcover |
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