Obj. ID: 38485
Jewish printed books  Kisaot le-Bet David by Yehudah Eshael ben Eliezer Matov, Verona, 1646

This text was prepared by William Gross:

An anti-philosophical work in support of traditional Jewish teachings, by R. Judah Asahel b. David Eliezer Del Bene.
R. Judah Asahel b. David Eliezer Del Bene (c.1615?-1678) came from a socially and culturally prominent family in Ferrara. He served as a rabbi in that city. This is his only published work.
Title page with typographical border and censor's approval. Small woodcuts on the bottom of the initial pages, including one of Jerusalem surrounded by the verse "For thrones of Judgement were set there..." This is the first earliest illustration of Jerusalem in a Hebrew book.
Hebrew books were published in Verona briefly in 1594-1595. In 1645 this activity was resumed at the press of Francisco de' Rossi on the initiative of the Verona rabbis R. Samuel Aboab (and his sons Jacob and Joseph) and R. Jacob Hagiz, who purchased and brought type to Verona. They published some thirty titles before Hebrew printing in Vernona ceased again, in 1652.