MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03177cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2007046781
003 DLC
005 20090829093501.0
008 071113s2008 ne ah b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007046781
020 $a9789004157590 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a900415759X (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn182552894
035 $a(OCoLC)182552894
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dDLC
050 00 $aZ228.H4$bH46 2008
082 00 $a686.2/1924$222
100 1 $aHeller, Marvin J.
245 10 $aStudies in the making of the early Hebrew book /$cMarvin J. Heller.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2008.
300 $axi, 419 p. :$bill., facsims. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in Jewish history and culture,$x1568-5004 ;$vv. 15
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMars 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.
650 0 $aPrinting, Hebrew$xHistory.
650 0 $aHebrew imprints$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip084/2007046781.html