Join my colleagues from @footprints-heb.bsky.social and the @fisherlibrary.bsky.social for a summer seminar on Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica June 9-10 2025. Read more and apply here: fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fisher-event...

One of the first Hebrew Incun. I cataloged was Sefer ha-Ikarim (Joshua Soncino, 1485). Acquired by LC in 1930 from Otto Vollbehr, who acquired it in 1912 from Ludwig Rosenthal. Copy incomplete. 1 leaf is in ms and cover is a Hebrew ms.

BM550.A59 S382 1485
lccn.loc.gov/00510999

We are thrilled to announce that we've partnered with the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto to co-host a Summer Seminar on "Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica." More information and applications at the link below:
fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fisher-event...

Hooray! Our 25,000th footprint shows, via an owner's stamp, that "Ruah ha-Hen" (Cologne, 1555) is owned by Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, USA.
footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/30...
This footprint was added to the database as part of a project focused on JTS's books from Italy.

According to a bookseller/auction catalog, Christie's Auction House held a copy of Torah Nevi'im Ketubim (Paris, 1544-1546), for sale in New York in 1986.

https://footprints.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/footprint/4473/