Hebrew). With commentaries of Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi (two), Targum etc

the third, and finest edition of Bomberg’s Rabbinic Bible. The name of the printer on the title, “Daniel son of Cornelio Bombergi” is slightly misleading, for in 1538 Bomberg departed for his birthplace of Antwerp, leaving in charge of his press, the Jewish apostate Cornelio Adelkind. Adelkind’s involvement is attested to by several colophons in this Bible edition, all signed, “Cornelio Adelkind le-Beith ha-Levi.” (One notes with wry humor that though no longer a Jew by confession, Adelkind nevertheless continued to pride himself on his Levitic descent). The Bomberg Printing House of Venice functioned under Adelkind’s able management for a full ten years, whereupon Adelkind a consummate master printer, joined the Establishment of Juan dei Farri & Brothers, then Marco Antonio Justinian and lastly the House of Tobias Foa in Sabbioneta. “Cornelio…was the man to whom the work of Bomberg’s press owes much of that excellence which gained for it the admiration of contemporaries and established it as a model for later craftsmen.” D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) p. 182 and A.M. Habermann, Ha-Madpiss Cornelio Adel-Kind u-Beno Daniel (1980) pp. 7-13