8 Not Wanderers but Faithful Companions

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2845
dc.contributor.author	Bertagna Marco
dc.title	8 Not Wanderers but Faithful Companions. A Brief Overview on the Hebrew Incunabula Held in Italian Libraries
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The late 15th century became a time of dramatic changes in the Hebrew book-making as well. The Hebraica team of the 15cBOOKTRADE project prepared a thorough description of the extant copies of the Hebrew incunabula kept in the libraries of Europe and Israel. Notes of ownership, deeds of sale, personal remarks, institutional stamps, signatures of censors – all of them provide a rich picture of the distribution and use of Hebrew printed books throughout Europe (and also their ways from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East). Among a few hundreds of the checked volumes some were printed in Italy and remained there all the centuries since then, others were printed in Portugal and soon made their way to the Ottoman lands and from there to Yemen or Persia. Although the survey is not complete yet, since some important collections such as Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana still need to be included in the MEI database, the main results can enrich our knowledge on certain rabbis and scholars or provide interesting evidence of communal life, literacy, trade, the role of women and of the books in private possession.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-11-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-05-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-333-5/8-not-wanderers-but-faithful-companions/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9883
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9107
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-333-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-332-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Book trade
dc.subject	Book trade
dc.subject	Book-making
dc.subject	Book-making
dc.subject	Hebrew incunabula
dc.subject	Hebrew incunabula
dc.subject	Libraries
dc.subject	Libraries
dc.subject	Provenance research
dc.subject	Provenance research

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8 Not Wanderers but Faithful Companions

A Brief Overview on the Hebrew Incunabula Held in Italian Libraries

Marco Bertagna 15cHEBRAICA, University of Oxford, UK

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The late 15th century became a time of dramatic changes in the Hebrew book-making as well. The Hebraica team of the 15cBOOKTRADE project prepared a thorough description of the extant copies of the Hebrew incunabula kept in the libraries of Europe and Israel. Notes of ownership, deeds of sale, personal remarks, institutional stamps, signatures of censors – all of them provide a rich picture of the distribution and use of Hebrew printed books throughout Europe (and also their ways from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East). Among a few hundreds of the checked volumes some were printed in Italy and remained there all the centuries since then, others were printed in Portugal and soon made their way to the Ottoman lands and from there to Yemen or Persia. Although the survey is not complete yet, since some important collections such as Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana still need to be included in the MEI database, the main results can enrich our knowledge on certain rabbis and scholars or provide interesting evidence of communal life, literacy, trade, the role of women and of the books in private possession.

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Feb. 24, 2020

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Nov. 5, 2019

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May 6, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Book trade • Hebrew incunabula • Provenance research • Book-making • Libraries

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