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Highlights from the Western Hebrew Library

 

Anglo-Jewry

| 1 | W E534
Manasseh ben Israel, Sefer Nishmat ḥayim (The Soul of Life)
Amsterdam: Shmuʼel Avravanel Suʼero, 1652.

| 2 | W T1478
Pinḥas ben Shemuʼel, Sefer Midrash Pinḥas
London: Daṿid b.R. Mordekhai ha-Leṿi, 1795.

| 3 | W H1474
Ḥayim ben Dov Berish Horoṿits, Sefer Ḥibat Yerushalayim (The Book of Affection for Jerusalem)
Jerusalem: Israel ben Abraham, 1844.

 

Oxford Jewry

| 1 | W H1328
Euchel, Isaac Abraham, Toledot ha-rav ha-kolel he-ḥakham
Vienna: Georg Holzinger, 1814.

| 2 | W Km16
Leopold Dukes: Ginze Oxford (Treasures of Oxford)
London, 1850.

| 3 | W J1237
Leopold Dukes, Zur Rabbinischen Spruchkunde.
Vienna, 1851.

Christian Hebraists

| 1 | W M502
Paulus Fagius (1504-1549), translator. Sententiae morales Ben Syrae – Tobias Hebraice.
Isny : Paul Fagius, 1542.

| 2 | W B1270
First Five Books of Minor Prophets
[Paris or Geneva]: R. Étienne 1555-56.

| 3 | W Jm13
Johannis Buxtorf II, Florilegium Hebraicum
Basel : Ludwig König's heirs, 1648.

 

Telling books – provenance cases

| 1 | W J841
Alphabetum Hebraicum
[Paris]: Ex officina Roberti Stephani Typographi Regij, 1563.

| 2 | W X1283
Abraham Tsahalon, Yad Ḥarutsim
Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1595.

| 3 | W B791
Sefer tehilim - Liber psalmorum Hebraicè cum versione Latina Santis Pagnini
Basel: Heirs of Ludwig König, 1648.

| 4 | W B797
Constantijn L'Empereur, Paraphrasis Don Iosephi Iachiadae in Danielem, Amsterdam: Ioannes Ianssonius, 1733.

| 5 | W T137
Elijah ben Solomon Abraham , Sefer Agadat Elyahu
Izmir: Yehuda [ben] Daṿid Ḥazan, 1755.

 

The First Mishneh Torah Printed in Amsterdam
| 1 | W N1a
Maimonides, Mishneh Torah
Amsterdam: Athias, 1702.

 

Jews and Christians: Fruitful Collaborations

| 1 | W B371-373
Mikraot Gedolot = Biblia Rabbinica
Basel: Ludwig König, 1618.

| 2 | Shelfmark missing
Jean Frederic Bernard and Bernard Picart, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World) in Amsterdam from 1723 in seven volumes.

 

Censors

| 1 | W D559
Judah ben Joseph Moscato, Sefer nefutsot Yehudah
Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1548.

| 2 | W P164
Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, Sefer Mitsṿot ha-Gadol (SeMaG)
Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1546.

| 3 | W R1g
Asher ben Jehiel, Sheʼelot u-teshuvot
Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1551.