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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Miniatures

Bromer, Anne C. and Julian I. Edison
Miniature books: 4,000 years of tiny treasures
New York:  Abrams in association with Grolier Club, 2007
Van Pelt Library. Z1033.M6 B76 2007

Cohen, Evelyn
“M. Isaac Norsa’s Hebrew Miscellany of 1523,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 64.1 (2002) 87-106
Van Pelt Library. Z733.P93 C5
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/pulc/index.html

Contessa, Andreina
“Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy,” pp. 37-57 in, The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2013) edd. Shlomo Simonsohn and Joseph Shatzmiller
Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.I8 I883 2010
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 I883 2010

Edison, Julian I.
“Miniature Judaica,” Miniature Book News 59 (December 1988) 1-4, http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9436/m1/1/
continued in 60 (March 1989) 1-2
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9435/m1/1/

Feffer, Solomon
“Hebrew Miniature Books,” Jewish Book Annual 27 (1969) 35-41
Katz Center – Stacks. PN6067 .J4
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .J4
[repr., pp. 384-90 in, Essays on Jewish Booklore (New York:  KTAV, 1972) ed. Philip Goodman; Katz Center - Stacks. PN842 .G66 1971]

Grunberger, Michael W.
“Miniature Hebrew Books,” Miniature Book News 78 (Sept. 1993) 8
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9420/m1/8/
and continued as “Hebrew Bibles,” Miniature Book News, 79 (December 1993) 2-7
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9419/m1/7/
[repr. of AB Antiquarian Bookman's Weekly (May 7, 1990) 1941-1948

Offenberg, Adri K.
“Was the Real First Printed Hebrew Biblical Text a Pocket-Sized Psalter?” pp. 227-35 in, Give Ear to My Words: Psalms and Other Poetry In and Around the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honour of Professor N.A. van Uchelen (Amsterdam ; Kampen, NL : Societas Hebraica Amstelodamensis : KOK Pharos Publishing House, 1996) ed. Janet Dyk
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.U35 D95 1996
Van Pelt Library. BM42.U35 D65 1996

Rivkind, Isaac
“A Pocket Edition Prayer Book for German Jewish Emigrants to America, 1842,” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 35 (1939) 207-212
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. E184.J5 A5
Research Annex (LIBRA).  E184.J5 A5

University of North Texas Libraries Miniature Book Collection
https://www.library.unt.edu/collections/special-collections/miniatures

Welsh, Doris V.
The History of Miniature Books
Albany, N.Y. :  Fort Orange Press, 1987
Available via BorrowDirect from Johns Hopkins University

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