Mss. Codices Hebraici Bibliothecae I. B. De-Rossi Accurate ab Eodem Descripti et Illustrati

A three-volume 1803 Latin catalogue of the Hebrew codices in the library of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742–1831).

Published in 1803, this is the third of a three-volume descriptive catalogue in Latin of the Hebrew codices in the personal library of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742–1831), an authority on Hebrew texts and their variant manuscript readings. This volume also includes an appendix of codices in other languages.Published in 1803, this is the third part of a three-volume descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew codices in the personal library of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742–1831), professor of oriental languages at the University of Parma. Each codex is numbered and its contents briefly described in Latin. Volume 3 features descriptions of codices 859–1,377 as well as an appendix of his codices in other languages. De Rossi was an important collector of manuscripts and incunabula, and an authority on Hebrew typography and textual variants. The Hebrew manuscripts described in this catalogue were obtained as a result of his exhaustive researches into variant readings of the Old Testament, the results of which he published as Variae lectiones veteris testamenti (1784–8). He also produced groundbreaking studies of printed Hebrew texts, and a catalogue of Jewish anti-Christian polemics, Bibliotheca judaica antichristiana (also reissued in this series).