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Responsum: On Printed Megilot (Scrolls of) Esther
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…

Contributor:

Moses Provenzali

Places:

Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Print, Scribal culture, Halakhah, Holidays, Purim

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Beginning of scroll with Hebrew text arranged in columned archways and decorated figures above and beside each column.
Venice Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…

Contributor:

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Holidays, Art

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page with Hebrew and Judeo-Italian text in center, and side columns of Hebrew text, with decorated archway above columns and illustration of groups of men on the bottom of the page.
Ta‘ame sukkah (Discourse on Sukkot): Account of His Printing Problems
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…

Contributor:

Nathan Hannover

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage