Reference Works for Hebrew Incunabula

The works listed on this page are referred to throughout this guide by the authors' last names. In the bibliography below, the "short reference" for each work precedes the title.

Bibliography

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

GOFF - Incunabula in American libraries; a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections by Frederich, R. Goff
Call Number: Z240 .G58
Published/Created: 1964
HAIN - Repertorium bibliographicum : in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD. typis expressi, ordine alphabetico vel simpliciter enumerantur vel adcuratius recensentur by Ludwig Hain
Call Number: Z240 .H15 1948
Published/Created: 1948
IAKERSON - Ḳaṭalog ha-inḳunabulim ha-ʻIvriyim me-osef sifriyat Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim ba-Ameriḳah by Semen Mordukhovich Iakerson
Call Number: Z7070 .I25 2004 Hebr
ISBN: 9654560399 (v. 1) / 9654560429 (v.2)
Published/Created: 2004-2005
ISTC - The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: an online database of 15th century European printing by Created and maintained by the British Library
Call Number: Available Online
This database is accessible onsite in the Rare Book and Collections Reading Room at the Library of Congress; it is also available and searchable online. Read a brief introduction to the ISTC
KARP - From the Ends of the Earth by Abraham J. Karp
Call Number: Z6375 .K37 1991 BM45
ISBN: 0844406813
Published/Created: 1991
OFFEN - Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections by Adri K. Offenberg (Compiled by); C. Moed Van Walraven (Compiled by)
Call Number: Z6375 .K37 1991 BM45
ISBN: 9060044045
Published/Created: 1990
Describes 139 incunabula from c. 40 presses of which some 2,000 copies are recorded in 153 collections. Preceded by an extensive Introduction. Fully indexed; concordances. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XLVII)
POPPER - The censorship of Hebrew books by William Popper
Call Number: Z1019 .P67 1969
Published/Created: 1969
Reprint of the 1899 edition with a new introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.
WIENER - Ḳohelet Mosheh by Samuel Wiener
Call Number: Z7070 .A35 Hebr
Published/Created: 1893-19(36)
Related title: Biblitheca Friedlandiana

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