History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Bindings

This is a guide to the History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book. It was copied with permission from the guide at the University of Pennsylvania, created by Bruce E. Nielsen, and updated for Columbia University by Michelle Chesner

Bindings

17th century blind tooled binding, Meir Nativ (Venice:  Bomberg, 1523):  Cambridge, St. John's College.
http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/scarlet/scarlet.htm

Avrin, Leila, “The Box Binding in the Klau Library,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 17 (1989) 26-35

Avrin, Leila, “The Sephardi Box Binding,” pp. 27-43 + 24 pls. in Library Archives and Information Studies, Scripta Hierosolymitana 29 (1989); especially pp. 40-43 and pls. 19-24 discussing the only printed Bible with such a binding.

Grunwald, Max, “Juden als Buchbinder,” Mitteilungen der Soncino-Gesellschaft 6 (1930) 17-25
RBML, SPINOZA 193Sp4 FS764

Husung, Max Jospeh, “Über den sogenannten Jüdischen Lederschnitt,” Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/6) 29-43 + 3 pls.

Husung, Max Jospeh, “Ein jüdischer Lederschnittkünstler,” Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/6) 197-98

Italiener, Bruno, “Isak B. Secharjah, ein jiidischer Lederschnittkiinstler des 15. Jahrhunderts,” pp. 159-161 in Festschrift für Aron Freimann Zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin : Soncino-Gesellschaft, 1935) edd. Alexander Marx and Hermann Meyer

Katzenstein, Ursula Ephraim, “Mair (sic!) Jaffe and Bookbinding Research,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 14 (1982) 17-28

Kurz, Otto, “A Copy after the Master E. S. on a Jewish Bookbinding,” [Brit. Mus. Ms. Add. 14762, fifteenth century Haggadah] Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24 (1965) 3-11

Landsberger, Franz, “The Cincinnati Haggadah and Its Decorator,” HUCA 15 (1941) 529-558
Burke and Offsite TX91 H43 IA

Mazal, Otto, “Der jüdischer Lederschnitteinband,” pp. 189-208 in, Jüdische Buchkunst, two volumes (Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1983-1992) edd. Ursula Schubert and Kurt Schubert
Rare Book Graphic Arts (Non-Circulating) ND2935 .S38 1983

Needham, Paul, “Jewish Bookbinding from Provence, after 1422,” pp. 78-81 in his Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400-1600 (New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press, c1979); one 15th century binding
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection. Folio Z269 .N37