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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Hebrew Types

  • Beaujon, Paul [= Beatrice Warde]
    “The ‘Garamond Types’ Sixteenth & Seventeenth century sources considered,” The Fleuron:  A Journal of Typography 5 (1926) 131-79
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. 655.05 F639

  • Carter, Harry Graham, ed.
    Sixteenth-Century French Typefounders:  The Le Bé Memorandum
    Paris :  Privately printed for A. Jammes, 1967
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z250.A2 L4

  • De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo
    De Hebraicae Typographiae
    Parmae [Italy] : ex Regio typographeo, 1776
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z7070 .D47
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/8885789.html

  • Dreyfus, John with Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet and Harry Carter
    Type Specimen Facsimiles: vol. 2, Reproductions of Christopher Plantin's 'Index sive specimen characterum' 1567 & folio specimen of c.1585, together with the Le Bé-Moretus specimen, c.1599 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1963-1972)
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection Folio. Z250 .T9653

  • Eames, Wilberforce
    On the use of Hebrew types in English America before 1735
    New York : [s.n.], 1929
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z251.H4 E2
    [repr.  pp. 481-502 in, Studies in Jewish bibliography and related subjects, in memory of Abraham Solomon Freidus (1867-1923), late chief of the Jewish Division, New York Public Library
    (New York : The Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, Distributed by the Jewish Division, New York Public Library, 1929)
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .F745 1929
    Katz Center - Reference Room. BM42 .F745 1929
    Research Annex. (LIBRA). 274B St93]

  • Freimann, Aaron
    Thesaurus typographiae hebraicae saeculi XV
    (Jerusalem, Universitas Booksellers, c1968 [Appeared originally in 8 parts. Published in Berlin 1924-1931])
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z240 .F77 1968 with supplement

  • Fuks, Leo and Renate Fuks
    “Hebrew Typography in Leiden, 1585-1759,” Quaerendo 9.1 (1979) 3-42
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006979x00097

  • Fuks, Leo and Renate Fuks-Mansfeld
    Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815: Historical Evaluation, and Descriptive Bibliography, 2 volumes
    Leiden : Brill, 1984
    Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 F84 1984
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 F84 1984

  • Fuks, Leo and Rena Fuks
    “The First Hebrew Types of Menasseh ben Israel,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 12 (1979) 3-8
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883
    Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
    http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook

  • Haebler, Konrad
    “Typefounding and Commerce in Type during the early years of printing,” Ars Typographica 3 (1926) 32-35
    Available via BorrowDirect from Johns Hopkins University

    Haiman, György
    Nicholas Kis:  Hungarian Punch-Cutter and Printer, 1650-1702
    San Francisco : J.W. Stauffacher/Greenwood Press in association with J. Howell-Books, 1983
    Van Pelt Library. Z232.T814 H3313 1983

  • Haiman, György
    "Blank spots in the history of Tótfalusi Kis Miklós' types,"
    Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 28 (1986) 261-265
    Research Annex (LIBRA). PN1 .A3

  • Howe, Ellic
    “An introduction to Hebrew Typography,” Signature.  A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts 5 (1937) 12-29
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z119 .S57

  • Klocke, Heiner, and Ittai Joseph Tamari, edd.
    Hebrew Typography in German-Speaking Regions: An Interim Report / Hebräische Typographie im deutschsprachigen Raum: Eine Zwischenbilanz
    Cologne: Fachhochschule Köln, Campus Gummersbach, 2001
    http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/hebrewtype/englisch/e_willkommen.html

  • Lane, John A.
    "The Printing Office of Gerrit Harmansz van Riemsdijck, Israël Abrahamsz de Paull, Abraham Olofsz, Andries Pietersz, Jan Claesz Groenewoudt & Elizabeth Abrahams Wiaer c.1660-1709," Quaerendo 43 (2013) 311-439
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700690-12341283

  • Lane, John
    "The Types of Nicholas Kis," Journal of the Printing Historical Society 18 (1983/4) 61-65
    Van Pelt Library. Z119 .P745

  • Lubell, Stephen
    Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Typography: A Typographical and Historical Analysis Based Primarily on the Guillaume I Le Bé Documents in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
    PhD. dissertation.  University of London, 2014
    Two volumes in one file.  http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/5641/2/Stephen_Lubell_MA_Dissertation_%28May_2014%29.pdf

  • Lubell, Stephen
    The use of Hebrew in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
    MA Thesis.  University of London, 2008; revised 2009
    http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2571/3/Lubell_-_dissertation_revised_January09.pdf

  • Marx, Alexander
    “Aldus and the first Use of Hebrew Type in Venice,” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 13 (1919) 64-67
    Van Pelt Library. 010.6 B473
    Research Annex (LIBRA). 10.6 B473

  • Nelson, Stan
    “Mould Making, Matrix Fitting, and Hand Casting,” Visible Language 19 (1985) 106-20
    Van Pelt Library. Z119 .J88

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “Hebräische Schrifttypen,” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens, 2nd edition, 3 (1991) 407-08
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection. Z118 .L67 1985

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “The Hidden Treasure of Athias,” Quaerendo 37.2 (2007) 96 – 110
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006907x174247

  • Omont, Henri
    Spécimens de Charactères Hébreux Gravés a Venisé et a Paris par Guillaume le Bé (1546-1574)
    Paris 1887) 1-9 [extract from Mémoires de la Société de l’Histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France 14 (1887)  257-264]
    Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5031 .O46 1887
    Van Pelt Library 944.36 So13.2
    Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnkw1f

  • Parker, Mike
    “Punches and Matrices of the Museum Plantin-Moretus,” Printing & Graphic Arts 6 (1958) 53-66
    Research Annex (LIBRA). 655.05 P936

  • Parker, Mike and Karl Melis
    Inventaris van de Stempels en Matrijzen van het Museum Plantin-Moretus.  Inventory of the Plantin-Moretus Museum Punches and Matrices.  English
    Antwerp:  Museum-Plantin Moretus, (Reproduced from typewritten copy for private circulation, April 1960)
    Research Annex (LIBRA). 655.1493 An88

  • Parker, Mike, Karl Melis and Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet
    “Typographica Plantiniana II:  Early Inventories of Punches, Matrices and Moulds in the Plantin-Moretus Archives,” De Gulden Passer 38 (1960) 1-139
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .G93

  • Rex, Richard
    “The earliest use of Hebrew in books printed in England:  dating some works of Richard Pace and Robert Wakefield,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 517-525
    Van Pelt Library.  Z1008 .C2
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154795?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • Sixtová, Olga
    “The beginnings of Prague Hebrew typography 1512-1569,” pp. 75-121 in, Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia (Prague: Academia – The Jewish Museum in Prague, 2012) Olga Sixtova´, ed.; tr. by Pavel Sla´dek et al.
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012
    Fine Arts Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012

  • Tamari, Ittai Joseph
    “Hebräisch-schriftliche Drucke aus dem 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert,” pp. 33-52, 452-460 in, Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution (Westhofen : WVA-Verlag Skulima, 2002) edd. Eva Hanebutt-Benz, Dagmar Glass, and Geoffrey Roper
    Van Pelt Library. Z126 .M53 2002

  • Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
    “Hebrews” pp. 366-406 in, French Renaissance printing types: a conspectus (New Castle, Delaware: The Bibliographical Society, The Printing Historical Society and Oak Knoll Press, 2010) Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library Reading Room. Z250.A2 V46 2010
    Van Pelt Library. Z250.A2 V46 2010

  • Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
    “The Garamond Types of Christopher Plantin,” Journal of the Printing Historical Society 1 (1965) 14-20
    Van Pelt Library. Z119 .P745

  • Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
    The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces, two volumes
    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
    “The Printing Types of the Young Robert I Estienne 1526-1530” I: 97-104
    “Robert Estienne’s Printing Types,” I:105-48
    “Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century:  An Inquiry into the Later Work of Robert Granjon; 1578-1590,” [revised translation of “Robert Granjon a` Rome 1578-1589 : notes pre´liminaires a` une histoire de la typographie romaine a` la fin du XVIe sie`cle,” Bulletin de l’Institut historique belge à Rome, vol. 38 (1967) 177–231] II 427-74
    Van Pelt Library. Z250.A2 V47 2008

  • Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
    “Robert Estienne’s Printing Types,” The Library, ser. 7, 5.2 (2004) 107-175
    Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69

  • Zafren, Herbert C.
    “Variety in the Typography of Yiddish:  1535-1635,” HUCA 53 (1982) 137-163
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM90 .H43
    Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM11 .H4
    http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=hebruniocollannu

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