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Bomberg, Daniel
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or List of Bomberg's Hebrew Works.
Christian printer and publisher of Hebrew works; born at Antwerp; died at Venice in 1549. After having learned from his father, Cornelius, the art of printing and of type-founding, he went to Venice, where, from 1517 to 1549, he published many editions of Hebrew works, including the following: The editio princeps of the "Biblia Rabbinica" (
), the Hebrew Bible with commentaries and three Chaldaic versions or Targumim; the first Hebrew Bibles; editions of and commentaries on the Pentateuch and other Biblical books; many grammatical and lexicographical works; philosophical and ethical treatises; rituals; Mekilta; Sifra; Sifre; parts of the Mishnah; several Midrashim; and, under the auspices of Pope Leo X., the first complete editions of the Babylonian Talmud (with the commentaries of Rashi, Tosafot, and R. Asher b. Jehiel) and the Jerusalem Talmud. In the selection and editing of works to be printed he was assisted by Ḥiyya b. Meïr (for Isserlein), Baruch Adelkind (for Colon), and Jacob b. Ḥayyim (for the Talmud), and others. The following is an approximatelycomplete list of the Hebrew works issued by Bomberg, in chronological order:
| Biblia Rabbinica, ed. , 4 parts | 1516-17 |
| Hafṭarot | 1516-48 |
| Bible, ed. i | 1517 |
| Psalms, ed. i | 1518 |
| Prayer-Book of Roman Ritual | 1519 |
| Joseph Colon's Responsa | 1519 |
Israel Isserlein,   | 1519 |
| "Liḳḳute Pardes" (extracts from various authors) | 1519 |
| Babylonian Talmud, ed. , 15 vols. (first complete edition) | 1520-23 |
| Kiddushin | 1520 |
| Pesahim between | 1520-23 |
| Bible, ed. ii | 1521 |
| Alfasi's " Halakot" | 1521-22 |
| Psalms ed. ii | 1521 |
| Abot, ed. i | 1521 |
| Megillat Setarim (Parody on Purim), ed. | 1522 |
| Pentateuch | 1522 |
| Moses de Coucy, "Sefer fer Miẓwot," ed. i | 1522 |
| Jacob ben Asher, "Turim" | 1522 |
| Proverbs, Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, ed. i | 1522 |
| Moses b. Naḥman, Commentary, "Baba Batra" | 1523 |
| Isaac Nathan b. Kalonymus, "Meïr Netib" | 1523 |
| Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona, "Sefer ha- Ḥinnuk" | 1523 |
| Miḳeweh Abraham | 1523 |
Abraham Saba,   (Novellæ) | 1523 |
| Recanati on the Pentateuch. | 1523 |
| Jerusalem Talmud, ed. pr | 1523 |
| Pentateuch, Megillot, Hafṭarot, ed. i | 1523 |
| Baruch b. Isaac of Worms, "Sefer ha- Terumah" | 1523 |
| Solomon b. Adret, Novellæ on Berakot and Ḥullin | 1523 |
| Psalms, ed. iii | 1524 |
| Proverbs, Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes ed. ii | 1524 |
| Maimonides, "Yad ha- Ḥazaḳah" (2 vols.) | 1524 |
| Tefillah (Spanish ritual) | 1524 |
| Biblia Rabbinica, ed. , 4 parts | 1524-25 |
| Bible, ed. iii | 1525-28 |
| Abot, ed. ii | 1526 |
| Mishnah Sukkah | 1526 |
| Mishnah Ḥullin | 1526 |
| Babylonian Talmud, 15 parts, second ed. | 1526-48 |
| Pentateuch, Megillot, Hafṭarot, ed. ii | 1527 |
| Mishnah Sheḳalim | 1527 |
| Job and Daniel, ed. | 1527 |
| Elijah Mizraḥi, Commentary on Rashi, i | 1527 |
| Mishnah Ḳodashim and Toharot | 1528 |
| Prayer-Book (Karaitic rite) | 1528-29 |
| Tefillah (German ritual) | 1529 |
| David Ḳimḥi, "Seferha-Shorashim" | 1529 |
| R. Nathan ben Jehiel, "'Aruk" | 1531-32 |
| Pentateuch, ed. ii | 1533 |
| Psalms, ed. iv | 1537 |
| Job and Daniel, ed. ii | 1538 |
| Psalms, ed. v | 1538 |
| Proverbs, Song, and Ecclesiastes, ed. | 1538 |
| Eliah Levita "Masoret ha-Masorah" | 1538 |
| Elias Levita, "Tub Ta'am" | 1538 |
| Benjamin Ze'eb's Responsa | 1539 |
| Mishnah Mo'ed Ḳaṭan | 1539 |
| Pentateuch, Megillot, Hafṭarot, eds. -v | 1543 |
| Bible, ed. iv | 1544 |
| Elijah Mizraḥhi, Commentary on Rashi, | 1545 |
| Mekilta | 1545 |
| Biblia Rabbinica ed. , 4 parts | 1546-48 |
Hai Gaon,  | 1546 |
| Pesiḳta | 1546 |
| Sifre and Sifra | 1546 |
| Yelamdenu, e., Tanḥuma | 1546 |
| Shoher Tob on the Psalms | 1546 |
| Moses ibn Habib, "Marpe Lashon" | 1546 |
| Abraham ibn Ezra,. "Ẓaḥut" | 1546 |
| Abraham ibn Ezra, "Moznayim" | 1546 |
| Isaac Arama, Commentary on the Pentateuch | 1546 |
| "Sha'are Dura" | 1547 |
| Levi b. Gershon, commentary on the Pentateuch | 1547 |
| Moses de Coucy, "Sefer Miẓwot," ed. | 1547 |
| Pentateuch, Megillot, Hafṭarot, ed. | 1548 |
| Baḥya, "Ḥobot ha- Lebabot" | 1548 |
| Jacob Weil's Responsa | 1549 |
His Typography.
Though not actually the father of Jewish typography, as he is sometimes called, Bomberg began a new epoch in that art, and during the latter part of his life had many rivals and imitators even at Venice; these including Francesco Brucello, the two Dei Farri brothers, Marco Antonio Giustiniani, the Bragadini, Jean de Gara, and Zanetto. Some of these having won from Bomberg his ablest assistant, Cornelius Adelkind, acquired considerable wealth in their profession; but Bomberg himself expended so much money on the paper, engravings, and types for which his works were noted, that before his death he had lost almost his whole fortune.
- Geiger, Jüd. Zeit. 5:37 et seq.;
- Steinschneider, in Ersch and Gruber, Encyc. article Jüd. Typographie, 28:43b.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Bomberg, Daniel'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/b/bomberg-daniel.html. 1901.
