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"Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), ed. Jonatan Meir, Three volumes, Mosad Bialik, Jerusalem

Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is perhaps the most important piece of Hebrew prose composed before the stories of Mendele Mocher Seforim. A sly and complex story deriding Hasidism and Hasidim, it is told through the correspondence between the beadles of Hasidic courts and contemporary rabbis, and it presents a dark picture of  avaricious frauds and swindlers whose main concern was control over territory and the souls of believers, a goal achieved by beguiling the authorities and attacking all opponents. Perl lends his book a ‘Hasidic’ feel both in its physical design and in its language, presenting a Maskilic version of In Praise of the Ba’al Shem Tov that lays Hasidism bare so that no reader will ever be able to look at that, or any other Hasidic book, in the same way again. In addition to the book’s satiric sting, which would have been enough to bring its readers a dual pleasure, Perl’s hints at contemporary people and places, hidden within anagrams and numerological tricks. With the unraveling of these clues, which also include the use of actual Hasidic sources, the book is a valuable, contemporary view of historical reality. A meticulous reading of the book may therefore open a window on the hidden worlds of Hasidism and the Haskalah at the start of the nineteenth century.


The first volume (Imagined Hasidism) serves as an introduction to the complex satirical writings of Josef Perl of Tarnopol (1773-1839). At the center of the book stands an analysis of the satires, Megaleh Temirin (1819) and Bochen Tzadik (1838), including a systematic treatment of the ‘characters’ in the central works and a discussion of the dozens of manuscripts to be found in the Perl Archive in Jerusalem. Perl’s writings are analyzed here in the fuller context of Hebrew and Yiddish literature in general and Maskilic and Hasidic literature in particular, as well as other polemical writings and governmental records critical of Hasidism. The study thus presents a complex and nuanced picture of the relationship between literature and history, between the anti-Hasidic reports and the more complicated historical reality, and lays the groundwork for further research into the genre of nineteenth-century Maskilic satire.

The second and third volumes (Megaleh Temirin) present for the first time an annotated edition of Megaleh Temirin. It is based on the first edition and the scattered manuscripts and it includes a comparison to its Yiddish translation. The book is accompanied by appendices on its origins and contents, including fundamental treatments of several passages: an explication of the encoded names, the Hasidic sources used by the author, and the variants found in the manuscripts and in the only edition of the book in Yiddish.

The editor of the book, Professor Jonatan Meir, teaches in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. He has published several articles on the Haskalah of Eastern Europe, Hasidism, and a number of varied topics in twentieth-century Kabbalah.


Contents

Volume 1  - Critical Edition

Concerning this edition
Key personalities
Sefer Megale Temirin – Critical Edition


Volume 2 - Appendixes:
1. Glossary, Abbreviations, Acronyms
2. Explanation of the Speaking Names
3. Perl’s Hasidic Sources
4. Manuscripts of Sefer Megale Temirin
5. Yiddish Introduction to Sefer Megale Temirin
Bibliographic Abbreviations

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Reviews:
(1) Dan Meron, 2013, ‘Megaleh Temirin’, Kivunim Hadashim 29, 55 pages (Hebrew)
(2) David Assaf, 2014, ‘Hasidim will not Read it but Tear it’, Haaretz, Tarbut ve-Sifrut, p .6 (Hebrew) http://onegshabbat.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/blog-post_18.html
(3) Eliezer Brodt, 2014, 'New book Announcement- Megale Temirin', The Seforim Blog http://seforim.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/new-book-announcement-megale-temirin.html
(4) Matan Hermoni, 2014,  הסבתא המופקרת של הספרות העבריתHaaretz, Sfarim (Hebrew) http://www.haaretz.co.il/.premium-1.2382365
(5) Shinichi Yamamoto, 2015, 山本　伸一, "ヨナタン・メイール編著『想像のハシディズム』", ユダヤ・イスラエル研究　第28号  http://www.waseda.jp/assoc-jsjs/jistudies.html
(6) David Biale and David Assaf,, 2015, 'Revealer Revealed', Jewish Review of Books, pp. 17-21  http://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1454/revealer-revealed/
(7) Hillel Halkin, 2015, "Sex, Magic, Bigotry, Corruption- and the First Hebrew Novel', Mosaic Magazine,  http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/05/sex-magic-bigotry-corruption-and-the-first-hebrew-novel/
(8) Tomer Persico, 2015, "Interview", Lula'at haEl Blog, http://tomerpersico.com/2015/08/10/meir_perl/

Alberto Petrucciani, La catalogazione degli incunaboli. In: Il linguaggio della biblioteca: scritti in onore di Diego Maltese, raccolti da Mauro Guerrini. Firenze: Regione Toscana, Giunta regionale, 1994 (stampa 1995), p. 567-588. (Altra edizione: Milano: Ed. Bibliografica, 1996, p. 809-829).

This study explores the multifaceted Maya Deluge Myth, from its pre-Columbian origins to current fantasies about a great world-destroying flood at the 13 Baktun period ending of the Maya Long Count on 21 (or 23) December 2012. No such flood is prophesied in any Maya records for this date, and the famous scene on Dresden Codex page 74 is discussed in its context as a symbolic depiction of the annual world-renewing downpours at the onset of the rainy season in springtime in the Maya world. The presiding gods of warfare and blood sacrifice were the agents of fertility and the regeneration of nature, and not the agents for the destruction of the Maya in a world-ending deluge. The misinterpretation of Dresden page 74 has propagated, unchallenged, for over a century of Maya scholarship and found its way into “new age,” fringe, and popular culture. This research helps to set the record straight along with providing a history of the meme.

Scattered throughout the realm in a great number of provincial courts, Ming imperial clansmen did not wield political or military power. Some among them therefore used their energies to publish books; indeed, the publishing activities of the Ming princes constitute one of many elements of what can be termed "princely culture." Even though princely imprints formed an insignificant proportion of Ming publications, a large number of them have survived to our day. Based on the examination of approximately 240 such editions, this essay explores the relationships between the princes and the literati who assisted them.

Eine ganze Menge der aus der Bibliotheca Corviniana bekannten Werke waren bis zum Tod Matthias’ nicht im Druck erschienen. In der Mehrzahl beinhalten die Corvinen nicht die uns heute bekannten, vollständigen Texte. Unsere Aufgabe ist es, die Qualität der Texte, welche die lateinischen Übersetzungen griechischer Autoren enthalten, zu analysieren und zu präsentieren. Diese Analyse darf aber nicht durch Vergleich mit den heute bekannten Texten (editiones criticae), sondern anhand einer Nebeneinanderstellung mit den damals zugänglichen Handschriften und Inkunabeln vorgenommen werden.
Ein Viertel der erhalten gebliebenen authentischen Corvinen (216) enthält Übersetzungen griechischer Autoren ins Lateinische. In 57 Handschriften befinden sich Opera der klassischen griechischen, der griechisch-patristischen und der byzantinischen Literatur. Die ca. 100 Werke von 46 Autoren wurden von 32 Gelehrten ins Lateinische übersetzt.

Scattered throughout the realm in a great number of provincial courts, Ming imperial clansmen did not wield political or military power. Some among them therefore used their energies to publish books; indeed, the publishing activities of the Ming princes constitute one of many elements of what can be termed "princely culture." Even though princely imprints formed an insignificant proportion of Ming publications, a large number of them have survived to our day. Based on the examination of approximately 240 such editions, this essay explores the relationships between the princes and the literati who assisted them.

Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is perhaps the most important piece of Hebrew prose composed before the stories of Mendele Mocher Seforim. A sly and complex story deriding Hasidism and Hasidim, it is told through the correspondence between the beadles of Hasidic courts and contemporary rabbis, and it presents a dark picture of  avaricious frauds and swindlers whose main concern was control over territory and the souls of believers, a goal achieved by beguiling the authorities and attacking all opponents. Perl lends his book a ‘Hasidic’ feel both in its physical design and in its language, presenting a Maskilic version of In Praise of the Ba’al Shem Tov that lays Hasidism bare so that no reader will ever be able to look at that, or any other Hasidic book, in the same way again. In addition to the book’s satiric sting, which would have been enough to bring its readers a dual pleasure, Perl’s hints at contemporary people and places, hidden within anagrams and numerological tricks. With the unraveling of these clues, which also include the use of actual Hasidic sources, the book is a valuable, contemporary view of historical reality. A meticulous reading of the book may therefore open a window on the hidden worlds of Hasidism and the Haskalah at the start of the nineteenth century.

The first volume (Imagined Hasidism) serves as an introduction to the complex satirical writings of Josef Perl of Tarnopol (1773-1839). At the center of the book stands an analysis of the satires, Megaleh Temirin (1819) and Bochen Tzadik (1838), including a systematic treatment of the ‘characters’ in the central works and a discussion of the dozens of manuscripts to be found in the Perl Archive in Jerusalem. Perl’s writings are analyzed here in the fuller context of Hebrew and Yiddish literature in general and Maskilic and Hasidic literature in particular, as well as other polemical writings and governmental records critical of Hasidism. The study thus presents a complex and nuanced picture of the relationship between literature and history, between the anti-Hasidic reports and the more complicated historical reality, and lays the groundwork for further research into the genre of nineteenth-century Maskilic satire.

The second and third volumes (Megaleh Temirin) present for the first time an annotated edition of Megaleh Temirin. It is based on the first edition and the scattered manuscripts and it includes a comparison to its Yiddish translation. The book is accompanied by appendices on its origins and contents, including fundamental treatments of several passages: an explication of the encoded names, the Hasidic sources used by the author, and the variants found in the manuscripts and in the only edition of the book in Yiddish.

The editor of the book, Professor Jonatan Meir, teaches in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. He has published several articles on the Haskalah of Eastern Europe, Hasidism, and a number of varied topics in twentieth-century Kabbalah.



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Contents


Introduction                                                                                     
Scholarship on the anti-Hasidic writings of Josef Perl • Hasidic hagiography and the emergence of satire • Two-fold reading of Perl’s writings and the gematriyot • Satire, literature, and history • ‘Holy Books’ and subversive books

Chapter 1: Josef Perl, Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, and the ‘Holy Books’
Prayer of the fall of Hasidism and the expungement of their books • Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht and the critique of hagiography • Sefer Sipurey Ma‘asiyot and the parodic response to it • Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, ‘heretical books’ and the ‘Holy Books’ • In praise of the true Tsaddikim • ‘Laughter of the heretics’: testimonies about the polemics against Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht • ‘Holy Books’, ‘sacredness of hagiography’, and parodies of hagiography • Appendix: Parodic manuscript about an opponent of the ‘Holy Books’ who was reborn as a horse

Chapter 2: Speaking Names in Sefer Megale Temirin                             
Time of the composition of Megale Temirin, censorship, and a note on the Buch • Hasidic books and the emergence of parody • Structure of Sefer Megale Temirin • The Introduction to Sefer Megale Temirin • Main Hasidic courts • The court in Żołyń (Łożne) and the peregrinations of the Buch • The court of Dishpal (Międzyboż), moneyboxes of the Besht, the holy relics • The court in Aklo (Olika) and the ritualized reading of Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht • Function of the footnotes and the parodic hagiography • History of the rabbis – clandestine opponents of Hasidism • The Besht in Tarnopol • Rabbi Meir Jacob of Zasław and the letters from Galicja  • Zaddikim in Galicja • Ciphered stories • ‘Holy Places’: reincarnations of a praise from Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht • The revelation of the Buch and the death of the secretary • ‘Gang of criminals’: another death and an escape to the Land of Israel • The End: Ovadia Ben Petahia and the rabbi of Opatów

Chapter 3: Joseph Perl, Hirsh of Zydaczów, and the Polemics of Gematriyot
Reb Zevi Hirsh of Zydaczów and Hasidism in Galicja • Maskilic opposition to the Zydaczówer • Letters concealed in Sefer Megale Temirin • A manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim • Books, education, and a note on Reb Nathan of Nemirov • Zydaczówer’s ban on the Maskilim and the first Gematria • Parodic letter of Perl and the second Gematria • About the parodic letter and the jumble of gematriyot • Denunciation and expulsions of R Zevi Hirsh • ‘Father of impurity’: Joseph Perl and the writings of the rabbi of Komarno • Final note • Appendix: Parodic letter against the Zydaczówer

Chapter 4: Speaking Names in the Book of Sefer Bohen Zaddik               
The manuscript of Sefer Bohen Zaddik and the difficulties with its publication • Structure of the book • In search for the true Zaddik and the rabbi of Opatów • Travels of Ovadia Ben Petahia between the towns of Galicja • Kromcza Ruska (Zaleszczyki) or the entrance to Galicja • ‘Briks’ (Tarnopol): Rabbi Jehoshua Heschel Babad and the school • ‘Bicik’ (Lemberg) Rabbi Jacob Orenstein and a ban on the Maskilim • ‘Abdera’ (Brody) Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Sefer ha-Zoref • The explanation of the names of the rabbis • Utopia and dystopia • The hidden butcher and his kabbalistic writings • The discovery of the colonies • The image of the disciples of the Gaon and the ‘true Hasid’ • ‘The solution for the East’ or heterotopia •  The will to flee and the emissary

Chapter 5: The Imaginary Influence of Sefer Megale Temirin                     
The myth about the success of the book • Pamphlet Megale Sod • The manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim • Dialogues about Sefer Megale Temirin • For whom Sefer Megale Temirin was intended and who read it • Note concerning Sefer Megale Temirin in Yiddish • Influence real and imagined • Was Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht written by a parodist? • Temerl Bergson and Sefer Megale Temirin • Writ of defense of Hasidism • Sefer Megale Temirin and the Hebrew literature • Appendix: writ of defense of Joseph Judah Lob Sossnitz

Afterword: Note on the Anti-Hasidic Outlook                                       

Bibliographic Abbreviations   

Reviews:
(1) Dan Meron, 2013, ‘Megaleh Temirin’, Kivunim Hadashim 29, 55 pages (Hebrew)
(2) David Assaf, 2014, ‘Hasidim will not Read it but Tear it’, Haaretz, Tarbut ve-Sifrut, p .6 (Hebrew) http://onegshabbat.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/blog-post_18.html
(3) Eliezer Brodt, 2014, 'New book Announcement- Megale Temirin', The Seforim Blog http://seforim.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/new-book-announcement-megale-temirin.html
(4) Matan Hermoni, 2014,  הסבתא המופקרת של הספרות העבריתHaaretz, Sfarim (Hebrew) http://www.haaretz.co.il/.premium-1.2382365
(5) Shinichi Yamamoto, 2015, 山本　伸一, "ヨナタン・メイール編著『想像のハシディズム』", ユダヤ・イスラエル研究　第28号  http://www.waseda.jp/assoc-jsjs/jistudies.html
(6) David Biale and David Assaf,, 2015, 'Revealer Revealed', Jewish Review of Books, pp. 17-21  http://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1454/revealer-revealed/
(7) Hillel Halkin, 2015, "Sex, Magic, Bigotry, Corruption- and the First Hebrew Novel', Mosaic Magazine,  http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/05/sex-magic-bigotry-corruption-and-the-first-hebrew-novel/
(8) Tomer Persico, 2015, "Interview", Lula'at haEl http://tomerpersico.com/2015/08/10/meir_perl/
(9) Ariel Evan Mayse, 'Review', Jewish History (2015)ת  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10835-015-9245-2
(10) Review - Gal-Ed

During the Early modern age, the Society of Jesus was the religious institution that, more than any other, linked its reason for existence to the world of the book. Indeed between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, Jesuit founded some of the richest and most highly organized libraries of the Christian world. By analyzing archival documentation, in large part unpublished, this work navigates and delves into the twists and turns of Jesuit library history. In doing so it seeks, for the very first time, to reconstruct the operations and affairs of the library institutions of the Societas Iesu. By employing a unique historical-thematic structure, the distinct characteristics of Jesuit collections are revealed, and the library practices of the order, prior to the papal suppression of 1773, are reconstructed. The case of Perugia ultimately offers a prime example of a true Jesuit library. Through the analysis of unpublished sources, as well as the Jesuit bibliographic patrimony presently archived at the Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, the organizational and functional history of this “militant” library is traced from its origins to the eighteenth century suppression. A complex history, constructed by books and people, is brought to light, through an articulated bibliographic and document-based excavation, that offers the reader a fine example of one of the most significant cultural realities of the Age of typography.

La Compagnia di Gesù fu l’istituzione religiosa che più di ogni altra in Età moderna legò la sua ragion d’essere al mondo del libro. Tra Cinque e Seicento i padri gesuiti costituirono dunque alcune delle più ricche e meglio organizzate biblioteche del mondo cristiano. Avvalendosi di una documentazione in larga misura inedita, l’opera si addentra nei meandri della storia bibliotecaria ignaziana cercando di ripercorrere per la prima volta in maniera organica le vicende degli istituti librari della Societas Iesu. Attraverso un apposito itinerario storico-tematico vengono delineati i caratteri peculiari delle antiche raccolte gesuitiche, ricostruendo così la viva esperienza bibliotecaria dell’ordine prima della soppressione clementina del 1773. Il caso di Perugia, infine, costituisce un esempio perfetto di cosa fosse realmente una biblioteca ignaziana. Grazie all’analisi incrociata delle fonti documentarie inedite con quella del patrimonio bibliografico ex-gesuitico conservato oggi presso la Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, viene ripercorsa la storia organizzativa e funzionale di questa biblioteca “militante” dalle origini fino alla soppressione settecentesca. Una storia complessa, fatta di libri ma anche di uomini, riportata alla luce grazie a un articolato lavoro di scavo documentario e bibliografico che offre al lettore un esempio virtuoso di una tra le più importanti realtà culturali dell’età tipografica.

Scattered throughout the realm in a great number of provincial courts, Ming imperial clansmen did not wield political or military power. Some among them therefore used their energies to publish books; indeed, the publishing activities of the Ming princes constitute one of many elements of what can be termed "princely culture." Even though princely imprints formed an insignificant proportion of Ming publications, a large number of them have survived to our day. Based on the examination of approximately 240 such editions, this essay explores the relationships between the princes and the literati who assisted them. It raises questions central to princely publishing: How learned were the princes? What books did they publish? For which audiences and with what objectives? What are the main characteristics of princely publications? Did princes have well-defined publishing strategies? The last section of the essay addresses the heritage of Ming princely publications in the Qing dynasty. This essay will be published in several installments in East Asian Publishing and Society. The bibliography for the whole essay will be published with the last installment.

Le caractère par le prénom: suivi de la liste des prénoms usuels avec l'explication des qualités et défauts que chacun d'eux impose à celui qui le porte.

El Carácter por el nombre: seguido de una lista de nombres usados con la explicación de las cualidades y defectos que cada uno de ellos impone en quien lo lleva.

Nel contributo, che fa parte del I volume di un'opera dedicata alle scritture autografe dei letterati italiani del Cinquecento, sono stati censiti tutti i manoscritti autografi di Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), accademico e letterato di spicco della politica culturale del duca Cosimo I. Oltre al riordinamento sistematico delle lettere autografe e soprattutto dei manoscritti delle opere dello scrittore e linguista fiorentino, comprendenti sonetti, canzoni, carmina latini, lezioni accademiche e commenti ad Aristotele, traduzione del "De consolatione" di Boezio e la  "Storia fiorentina" con i variegati materiali schedati per la sua stesura, l'articolo contiene la ricostruzione della biblioteca varchiana.*********************************
In this article there are catalogued all manuscripts by Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), member of Accademia Fiorentina and one of the leading representatives of cultural policy of Cosimo I de’Medici. The text includes: systematised letters and different works by Varchi such as Latin and Italian poems, lectures, comments to Aristotle’s works, translation of “De consolatione” by Boecius and “History of Florence” of Varchi, as well as reconstruction of his library with additional items (his books), recently discovered in libraries in Italy and abroad.

Scattered thro ughout the realm in a great number of provincial courts, Ming imperial clansmen did not wield political or military power. Some among them therefore used their energies to publish books; indeed, the publishing activities of the Ming princes constitute one of many elements of what can be termed "princely culture." Even though princely imprints formed an insignificant proportion of Ming publications, a large number of them have survived to our day. Based on the examination of approximately 240 such editions, this essay explores the relationships between the princes and the literati who assisted them. It raises questions central to princely publishing: How learned were the princes? What books did they publish? For which audiences and with what objectives? What are the main characteristics of princely publications? Did princes have well-defined publishing strategies? The last section of the essay addresses the heritage of Ming princely publications in the Qing dynasty. This essay will be published in several installments in East Asian Publishing and Society.

Written to accompany a 1994 UK reprinting of one of the rarest American angling books.  SALMON FISHING ON THE GRAND CASCAPEDIA  by the American angler Edmund W. Davis was originally produced for private distribution in two fine printings of 100 copies by the celebrated De Vinne Press of New York in 1904. The result is one of the chief rarities of American angling literature, as well as a landmark specimen specimen of the art of book making.

In the year 1969, the oldest part of the school library of Herlufsholm in Næstved was sold to the newly
founded University Library of Odense, including the special Groothoff book collection, Bibliotheca
Groothoffiana. Today, the joint collections are administered by the University Library of Southern
Denmark.
The Herlufsholm library contains very many works of great historical value, including many first editions
of spectacular scientific books, priceless maps, and etchings/woodcuts, not to mention numerous
handwritten names and annotations, added in the books by prominent figures of the past.
Tycho Brahe, René Descartes, Otto von Guericke, Johannes Kepler and Andreas Vesalius are among the
many famous authors to be found in the collection. Among the previous owners of the books are several
members of the Danish and foreign aristocracy as well as leading Danish scientists and scholars of all
kinds.
This book explains important parts of the school library history and presents selected items from the
collection, drawing forth examples of exquisite materials of both Danish and foreign origin.

Graphology is the art of reading character from handwriting. That there is a relationship between character and style of penmanship has long been recognized, but until recently little has been done to formulate the principles upon which this relationship is based.

Le immagini riprodotte nel volume sono tratte dalle Cinquecentine, conservate, in gran parte, nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa (vedi il sito):
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Nella prima metà del Cinquecento, in concomitanza con la rinascita edilizia della Roma farnesiana, si assiste a un crescente interesse del grande pubblico per i monumenti dell'antichità. Vengono tradotti i testi antiquari degli umanisti, come quelli di Biondo Flavio, e i tipografi commissionano i volgarizzamenti di opere più specificatamente dedicate alle testimonianze architettoniche di Andrea Fulvio e di Bartolomeno Marliani, seguite dai libri delle antichità stesi in volgare e da eruditi e da artisti (Andrea Palladio). Queste guide di Roma ritrovano i modelli nella scrittura squisitamente tecnica delle traduzioni di Vitruvio e, in particolare, dell'opera di Sebastiano Serlio che propone un nuovo genere di trattato architettonico contenente elementi testuali e linguistici innovativi: il disegno affiancato dal commento illustrativo essenziale espresso in moduli sintattici non complessi. Oltre a segnare l'acclimazione di soggetti classici eruditi in volgare, la grande fortuna delle guide di Roma contribuisce alla diffusione nella lingua d'uso non solo dei vocaboli aulici ma anche della nuova testualità di scritto d'arte e del lessico specifico di tecniche artistiche (architettura in primis).

Study on the civic iconography of the seggi (sedili, piazze) of early modern Naples; on the iconography of the horse in emblematic and political literature, within a social analysis of the Neapoltian ancient of horse-riding (rare books, etc.) and the social life of the Spanish and Neapolitan nobility.

The aim of the program is to take stock of Hungarian documents of
studia humanitatis with 1526 as a milestone. The census intends to register predominantly the use of (school)books in Hungary in teaching grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy.

Catalogo della mostra virtuale “Festina lente” (http://aldo.libriantiqui.it/) realizzata nel 2015 in collaborazione con il “Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca” (CRELEB) dell’Università Cattolica e l’Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana di Milano.

Even though the printing of books in Armenian began in Venice in 1511/12, just six decades after Gutenberg's invention, the hand copying of texts continued into the nineteenth century. This traditional method of creating books was carried out in
monasteries where the free labour of the monk as scribe was more economical than the
purchase of mass-produced printed books. The fear often expressed in the West that
printing would put scribes and copyists out of work was also echoed among Armenians. Nevertheless, Armenian printing spread from Venice to Rome and Amsterdam and other European centres, rapidly moving east to Constantinople, Iran, and India. The print revolution, however, did not engender the parallel development of a mechanically driven process for binding the ‘new’ books.

The King George III copy of the Gutenberg Bible, held at the British Library, has been analyzed using Raman spectroscopy to determine the palette of pigments used in the illuminations on this work. The palette is found to comprise cinnabar/vermilion, lead tin yellow (type 1), carbon-based black, azurite, malachite, an organo-copper complex (a "verdigris"), calcium carbonate (chalk), gypsum, gold leaf, and basic lead carbonate ("lead white"). This is in agreement with contemporary descriptions of the pigments used for the illuminations. One pigment could not be identified, specifically the organic dark red/ purple color used for the foliage. The palette of this copy of the Gutenberg Bible has been compared with those used for six other copies, held at Eton College and Lambeth Palace, England, the Bibliothè que Mazarine and the Bibliothè que nationale de France, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Niedersa 1chsische Staats-und Universita 1tsbibliothek (SUB) Go 1 ttingen, Germany. The palettes are shown to be similar to one another, even though the styles of the primary illuminations differ. The two Gutenberg Bibles held in Germany, printed on vellum, have the more expensive palettes, which include lazurite. The SUB Go 1 ttingen copy has the most extensive palette with 16 pigment-related materials having been identified.

geospatial properties of objects, leaving out other ontological properties. In this paper we propose to extend these visualizations to include nongeospatial properties of documents to support users with elementary and synoptic visual tasks. More specifically, additional suitable representations that can enhance the utility of map-based visualizations are discussed. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed solution, we have developed a prototype map-based visualization system using Google Maps (GM) which demonstrates how additional representations can be beneficial.

A “giuntina” edition of «Perì hermenèias» (Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Stamp. 15826), belonging to Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565) and by him richly annotated, testifies on his study on Logica. During his stay in Padua (1537-1541), while giving lectures on Philosophy at the «Studium» and taking part to the Accademia degli Infiammati, the Florentine scholar prepared the ground for building a vernacular philosophic prose by translating and commenting Aristotle's work. When he was called back to Florence in 1543 with the assignment of writing the «Storia fiorentina», Varchi persevered in his efforts to realize the project of putting the philosophic and scientific doctrine into vernacular, by giving lectures on Dante and Petrarch at the Accademia Fiorentina. Such project, moreover, matched with the aim of Duke Cosimo I to make Florentine language an efficient tool of his cultural policy. ***************************************************************************************
L’edizione giuntina del «Perì hermenèias» (Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Stamp. 15826), appartenuta a Benedetto Varchi e da lui fittamente postillata, è il testimone dei suoi studi sulla logica. Durante il soggiorno a Padova (1537-1541), fra le lezioni di filosofia nello Studio e l’attività all’Accademia degli Infiammati, il letterato fiorentino, traducendo e commentando l’opera di Aristotele, pose le basi alla costruzione di una prosa filosofica in volgare. Richiamato a Firenze nel 1543 per scrivere la Storia fiorentina, Varchi s’impegnò anche, con le letture dantesche e petrarchesche all’Accademia Fiorentina, a mettere in pratica il progetto di trasferire in volgare la dottrina filosofica e scientifica, un progetto che nei principi s’incontrava con l’aspirazione del duca Cosimo I a fare del fiorentino un mezzo efficace della sua politica culturale.

Se da a conocer la existencia de un pequeño pero rico conjunto bibliográfico de la época de la Guerra de la Independencia depositado en el Archivo General de la Guerra Civil del Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica. En él, se explica cómo pudo constituirse el conjunto bibliográfico, cómo pudo llegar a formar parte del Archivo de la Guerra Civil y qué tipo de materiales especiales bibliográficos lo conforman, libros y opúsculos, proclamas, manifiestos y exhortaciones, y sentencias judiciales, bandos e instrucciones militares, que dan lugar a las tres secciones en las que se divide este artículo. De cada una de estas obras, cuando es posible, se facilita, además de su título, lugar de impresión, año de impresión y tamaño, información sobre su autor, ediciones similares coetáneas y posteriores y las principales bibliotecas donde puede encontrarse otro ejemplar de la misma obra.

    Se da a conocer la existencia de un pequeño pero rico conjunto bibliográfico de la época de la Guerra de la Independencia depositado en el Archivo General de la Guerra Civil del Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica. En él, se explica cómo pudo constituirse el conjunto bibliográfico, cómo pudo llegar a formar parte del Archivo de la Guerra Civil y qué tipo de materiales especiales bibliográficos lo conforman, libros y opúsculos, proclamas, manifiestos y exhortaciones, y sentencias judiciales, bandos e instrucciones militares, que dan lugar a las tres secciones en las que se divide este artículo. De cada una de estas obras, cuando es posible, se facilita, además de su título, lugar de impresión, año de impresión y tamaño, información sobre su autor, ediciones similares coetáneas y posteriores y las principales bibliotecas donde puede encontrarse otro ejemplar de la misma obra.

The evolution of marketing strategies has changed all of theories and methods in marketing, including in libraries in marketing their products and institution. One marketing strategy that evolves today is Branding, Branding is a collection of theory and practice which aims to measure, build and manage the reputation of an institution. National Library of Republic Indonesia has a collection of 10,912 manuscripts and more than 80,000 copies of rare books, those are a great strength for the National Library Republic of Indonesia to make them as their Brand Ambassador in marketing the institution. The result of this effort is UNESCO declared Three ancient manuscript of National Library Of Republic Indonesia entitled Negara Kertagama as Memory Of The Word in 2008 and La Galigo also Babad Dipanagara as Memory Of The Word in 2011. Various attempts were made by the National Library of Republic Indonesia to set branding with the ancient manuscripts and rare books such as conducting literacy programs and the transcription of manuscripts, as well as promotion the rare books and manuscripts, cooperation with local and foreign researcher, and cooperation with international institution such as UNESCO and others, however, there are some constraints and obstacles encountered by National Library of Republic Indonesia to promote the ancient manuscripts and rare books including budget policy, the difficulty of procuring ancient manuscripts and rare collectibles scattered in Indonesia and Overseas as well as the difficulty of finding native speakers of languages used from the ancient manuscripts and rare books in Indonesia.

Parte seconda SUPPLEMENTO AL CATALOGO DELLE CINQUECENTINE a cura di Natale Vacalebre Premessa Il catalogo proposto nelle pagine seguenti è stato realizzato prendendo in esame gli esemplari delle 176 edizioni cinquecentesche giunte alla Biblioteca Oasis di Perugia dai conventi cappuccini minori del territorio umbro successivamente alla catalogazione delle cinquecentine effettuata da Carlo Rossetti nel 1988 1 .

La información que ofrece un libro antiguo o un conjunto coherente de libros y documentos antiguos puede ser muy heterogénea y afectar múltiples aspectos. El documentalista, ante el libro antiguo, está obligado a ofrecer la mejor y más pertinente información que pueda obtenerse de él y el investigador tiene la obligación de extraer de y sobre él nueva información para darla a conocer por él mismo a la sociedad. Se pretende determinar la importancia de la relación entre las informaciones que aportan los documentalistas y los investigadores sobre los documentos antiguos de cara a la identificación de la información que ofrecen esos documentos y su puesta en valor desde los centros de información.

The main objective of the Mnemosyne Digital Library of Rare and Forgotten Literary Texts (1868-1936) is to select, catalogue and make visible in digital format texts belonging to a forgotten repertoire in order to allow the historiographical review of what Dr. Ángela Ena calls “the Other Silver Age” (2013). The concepts ‘rare’, ‘curious’ or ‘forgotten’ are familiar to the literary historiography, but as far as we know, this is the first time that are applies to a repertoire of texts digitized, and with diverse genres and formats (books, newspapers and magazines). The task we have already completed is the Stage I, which is described in this chapter: A) Location of 247 male writers and 367 female writers whose works fit within these categories. B) Location in HathiTrust Digital Library of 3,876 works already digitised. C) Agreement of understanding with HathiTrust to have all those books in public access because they are Spanish heritage and should follow the Spanish copyright laws. D) Agreement of understanding with the Spanish National Library for the digitization of texts of the literary period that are in their funds. E) Outline of the metadata, taking into account the international standars. In the stages II and III this digital library will reach the goal of becoming a ‘smartlibrary’.

Sefer shivḥei ha-Besht is considered the central collection of hagiographic tales regarding Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (c. 1700–1760). It was first printed in Hebrew in Kopys in the latter part of 1814 and includes hundreds of stories which circulated orally and were heard by the author. The work was soon translated into Yiddish, with significant changes, and three such translations have survived, each one very different to the others. The first translation, published in Ostróg in 1815, was believed lost. This paper offers a brief description of the recently discovered edition, discussing its uniqueness in the context of the work's printing history and on the background of Jewish publishing in Eastern Europe.
המהדורות האבודות של ספר שבחי הבעש"ט ביידיש, 1817-1815
(כולל דיון ראשוני במהדורת אוסטרהא תקע"ה - שנמצאה לאחרונה - לאחר שנחשבה לאבודה)

Forgotten Heritage: Mustafa bin 'Umar al-Miistari, a Calligrapher from the 18th Century

Summary
Mustafa bin 'Umar al-Mustari finished his 23rd transcript of the Holy Qur'an in 1173. AH (1759/60 AD). This transcript is kept today in The Historical Archives of Sarajevo, under the signature 593. According to known information it is possible to
credit him with two more transcripts of the Holy Qur'an and one other transcript of an Arabic-Turkish dictionary. His family name was Hadzalic. Mustafa probably graduated from the Karadjoz-bey madrassah in Mostar, where he might have learned calligraphy. We can only assume that the illuminator and bookbinder were also from Mostar. The great number of manuscripts he copied give us an abundance of information on his place in society as an artist.

Appunti su Alcune edizioni illustrAte del Furioso* Già presenti nell'ultimo decennio di vita dell'autore, ancora prima della pubblicazione della versione definitiva del Furioso, le iterate ristampe del poema ariostesco danno certificazione del coevo processo di assunzione dell'Ariosto e del suo poema entro il canone degli autori e delle opere volgari cinquecentesche. 1 come è noto, l'edizione ferrarese del 1532, decorata con numerosi sigilli autoriali quali uno splendido ritratto xilografico e una impresa d'autore, conferisce all'opera il carattere di un solido prodotto editoriale, attentamente sorvegliato dall'Ariosto sia dal punto di vista testuale che da quello iconografico. 2 la pubblicazione di soluzioni editoriali diversificate a ridosso di questa edizione suggerisce una crescita di interesse per il Furioso e, di conseguenza, un evolversi dinamico delle stesse pratiche tipografiche, di pari passo al contemporaneo processo di canonizzazione del testo: significativa, a titolo di esempio, è l'edizione pubblicata nel 1535 dai tipografi Bindoni e pasini che -oltre che per il formato in ottavo, peraltro già proficuamente adoperato da altri editori in precedenza -si segnala per la presenza di una apologia di ludovico dolce, rilevante dal punto di vista della legittimazione teorica, assieme ad altri paratesti che fungono da vera e propria guida alla lettura e che, per questo, verranno presto imitati ed espansi in numerose edi-