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Lot #    6266
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 2:08:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Group of 8 de Rossi First Editions
Author    [Bibliography] Giovanni Bernardo de' Rossi
City    Parma
Publication Date    1773-1819
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First editions. 8 volumes, quarto, wide margins, clean sheets, light dampstaining. Very good copies bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    1. Vana Aspettazione..., Stamperia Reale, 1773, [8], 244 pp., Italian with some Hebrew.

2. de Hebraicae Typographiae origine ac primitiis..., Regio Typographeo, 1776, [8], 100 pp., Latin with some Hebrew.

3. de Corano Arabico Venetiis..., Imperiale Typographeo, 1805, 16 pp., Latin with some Syriac.

4. R. Immanuelis F. Salomonis Scholia..., Imperiale Typographeo, 1806, 16, [2] pp., Latin with some Hebrew.

5. Compendio..., Stamperia Imperiale, 1811, 40 pp., Italian with some Hebrew.

6. Dell'origine della Stampa in tavole incise..., Stamperia Imperiale, 1811, 12 pp., Italian with some German.

7. Introduzione alla sacra scrittura..., Stamperia Ducale, 1817, [4], 124 pp., Italian.

8. Sinopsi della ermeneutica sacra..., Stamperia Ducale, 1819, 84 pp., Italian with some Hebrew.

          
Paragraph 2    Giovanni Bernardo de' Rossi (1742–1831), Italian Christian Hebraist. De' Rossi was born in Castelnuovo d'Ivrea, Aosta. He became a priest in 1766 and graduated in theology in Turin. He had a profound knowledge of Hebrew language and medieval Jewish literature, and held the chair of oriental languages at Parma University from 1769 to 1821. De' Rossi's library of Jewish literature, one of the most valuable that has ever been brought together, comprised 1,432 manuscripts (some illuminated), and 1,442 printed books including many incunabula, some unique. It was purchased for 100,000 francs in 1816 by Marie Louise, duchess of Parma, who presented it to the Palatine library at Parma, where it still is. De' Rossi compiled a catalogue of his collection (Manuscripti codices hebraici bibliothecae J. B. de Rossi, accurate ab eodem descripti et illustrati, 3 vols., Parma, 1803), and wrote valuable works on Jewish incunabula (Annales hebraeo-typographici saeculi XV, Parma, 1795) and 16th-century typography (Annales hebraeo-typographici ab anno 1501 ad 1540, Parma, 1799), as well as on other subjects of Jewish interest, including studies of variant biblical texts and polemical literature. His Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e delle loro opere (2 vols., Parma, 1802; Ger. ed. Leipzig, 1839) is still of value, especially for the biographical notes on contemporary Jewish scholars.
          
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