Books by Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi

Published in 1803, this is the first of a three-volume descriptive catalogue 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. Each codex is numbered and its contents described in Latin.

Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742-1831), professor of oriental languages at the University of Parma, was an important collector of manuscripts and incunabula, and an authority on Hebrew typography and textual variants. This volume comprises his 1800 Latin catalogue of Jewish anti-Christian polemics and an 1812 Italian catalogue of books from his library.