Hebräische Inkunabeln

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Country

DE

Name of institution (English)

University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Language of name of institution

deu

Contact information: postal address

Bockenheimer Landstr. 134-138, 60325 Frankfurt am Main

Contact information: phone number

0049 06939205
0049 79839205

Contact information: web address

Contact information: email

information@ub.uni-frankfurt.de

Reference number

Inc. hebr.

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (English)

Hebrew Incunabulum

Title (official language of the state)

Hebräische Inkunabeln

Language of title

deu

Creator / accumulator

Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg

Date note

15th century

Language(s)

heb

Extent

66 books

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

The Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg comprises a rich collection of Hebrew incunabula, including some produced in Portugal and Spain. It is the case of the following copies:
Inc. hebr. 17 and Inc. hebr. 19: Jacob ben Acher's Arbaʿah turim. Hijar: Eliezer Alantansi, 1485, 1487.
Inc. hebr. 11 and Inc. hebr. 61: David ben Yosef Abudarham's Perush seder ha-tefilot. Lisbon: Eliezer Toledano, 1489.
Inc. hebr. 44: Nachmanides' Hidushe ha-Torah. Lisbon: Eliezer Toledano, 1489.
Inc. hebr. 41: Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (books 1-3). Portugal or Spain: Mosheh ben Sheʾaltiʾel, c. 1491 ?.
Inc. hebr. 57: David ben Shelomoh Ibn Yahya's Proverbia. Lisbon: Eliezer Toledano, 1492.
Inc. hebr. 18: Jacob ben Acher's Tur Orach Harim. Leiria: Abraão d'Ortas, 1495.

Archival history

The Hebrew incunabula were donated to the University Library by Frankfurt Jews between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. The first Hebrew incunabulum came from the collection of Aron Moses Fuld (1790–1847) and was donated by his son in 1867. Other incunabula were gifts from the private library of Professor Abraham Berliner (1833-1915) in 1899 and from Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828-1901)'s Foundation, founded by his wife Mathilde von Rothschild (1832-1924) in 1901. The collection increased substantially with the donation of the collection of Abraham Merzbacher (1812-1885) in 1903. The incunabulum Inc. hebr. 56 came from Johann Reuchlin’s estate.

Administrative / Biographical history

When the University of Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1914, it did not have its own library. Instead, the University was served by five existing libraries in Frankfurt: Senckenbergische Bibliothek, Rothschildsche Bibliothek, Kunstgewerbebibliothek and Zentralbibliothek des Städtischen Krankenhauses. In 1945, these libraries were merged to form the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, with the exception of the Senckenberg Bibliothek, which remained an independent institution. Finally, in 2005, the Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (StUB) and the Senckenberg Library (SeB) were merged and gave origin to the Central Library of the University of Frankfurt am Main under the name of Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg.

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Carla Vieira, 2022

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