A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing
Author : Elkan Nathan Adler
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Hebrew imprints
ISBN :
Author : Elkan Nathan Adler
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Hebrew imprints
ISBN :
Author : Aron Freimann
Publisher : New York : New York Public Library
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Printing
ISBN :
Author : Marvin J. Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004234616
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects of the early Hebrew book often treated in a cursory manner. The essays encompass book arts, printing-places and printers, and unusual book varia.
Author : Marvin J. Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004693203
Further Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of publication, and miscellaneous subjects. Book arts addresses pressmarks representing publishers motifs, several unusual, and the varied usage of biblical verses to entitle books. The second section focusses on the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today, noting their achievements and their varied books, encompassing such topics as biblical commentaries, Talmudic novellae, philosophy, and poetry. Several locations once important, also not well remembered today are addressed; Further Essays concludes with articles on other unrelated book topics.
Author : Marvin J. Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004441166
Articles on early Hebrew printing encompassing title-page motifs and entitling books; authors and places of publication including books opposed to gambling, on philology, and the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-48); small diverse places of printing; and on Christian-Hebraism.
Author : Marvin Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004679235
The first study on the subject, this is a bibliographical work on individual tractates published in the first half of the eighteenth-century, and the circumstances of their publication. Included are numerous reproductions of title and representative pages.
Author : Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110414198
The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Bibliothek, 8° Hs. 7058 (Rl. 203)] is a unique work of scribal art and illumination. Its costly parchment leaves are richly adorned and illustrated with multicolour paint and powdered gold. It was penned and illustrated in southern Germany – probably Swabia – in 1589 and is signed by a certain Eliezer b. Mordechai the Martyr. The Miscellany is a relatively thin manuscript. In its present state, it holds a total of 46 folios, 44 of which are part of the original codex and an additional bifolio that was attached to it immediately or soon after its production. The book is a compilation of various Hebrew texts, most of which pertain to religious life. Others are home liturgies, Biblical exegeses, comments on rites and customs, moralistic texts, homiletic and ethical discourses, and an extensive collection of home liturgies, its major part being dedicated to the life cycle. The unparalleled text compilation of the Nuremberg Miscellany on the one hand, and the naïve, untrained illustrations on the other hand, are puzzling. Its illustrations are hardly mindful of volume, depth or perspective, and their folk-art nature suggests that an unprofessional artist, possibly even the scribe himself, may have executed them. Whoever the illustrator was, his vast knowledge of Jewish lore unfolds layer after layer in a most intricate way. His sharp eye for detail renders the images he executed a valid representation of contemporary visual culture. The iconography of the Nuremberg Miscellany, with its 55 decorated leaves, featuring 25 text illustrations, falls into two main categories: biblical themes, and depictions of daily life, both sacred and mundane. While the biblical illustrations rely largely on artistic rendering and interpretation of texts, the depictions of daily life are founded mainly on current furnishings and accoutrements in Jewish homes. The customs and rituals portrayed in the miscellany attest not only to the local Jewish Minhag, but also to the influence and adaptation of local Germanic or Christian rites. They thus offer first-hand insights to the interrelations between the Jews and their neighbors. Examined as historical documents, the images in the Nuremberg Miscellany are an invaluable resource for reconstructing Jewish daily life in Ashkenaz in the early modern period. In a period from which only scanty relics of Jewish material culture have survived, retrieving the pictorial data from images incorporated in literary sources is of vital importance in providing the missing link. Corroborated by similar objects from the host society and with descriptions in contemporary Jewish and Christian written sources, the household objects, as well as the ceremonial implements depicted in the manuscript can serve as effective mirrors for the material culture of an affluent German Jewish family in the Early Modern period. The complete Nuremberg Miscellany is reproduced in the appendix of this book.
Author : Henry Cotton
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Fictitious imprints
ISBN :
Author : Henry Cotton
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Fictitious imprints
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Mareel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1351546090
Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," the cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that reproduction drains the image of its aura, by which he means the authority that a work of art obtains from its singularity and its embeddedness in a particular context. The central question in The Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) is whether the dissemination of text through print had a similar effect on the status of the word in the early modern period. In this volume, contributors from a variety of fields look at manifestations of the early modern word (in English, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Yiddish) as entities whose significance derived not simply from their semantic meaning but also from their relationship to their material support, to the physical context in which they are located and to the act of writing itself. Rather than viewing printed text as functional and lacking in materiality, contributors focus on how the placement of a text could affect its meaning and significance. The essays also consider the continued vitality of pre-printing-press kinds of text such as the illuminated manuscript; and how new practices, such as the veneration of handwriting, sprung up in the wake of the invention of movable type.