Manuel Benveniste
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Title
Manuel Benveniste
Description
Manuel (also Immanuel) Benveniste was another Sephardic printer in 17th century Amsterdam. He was born in Venice in 1608 and died in Amsterdam ca. 1660.
Here we see his 1654 edition of Solomon ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah, a history of the persecutions the Jews have experienced.
Benveniste’s printer’s device (which may have been the family escutcheon) is shown here: an upright lion facing a tower with a star above. For various reasons (some unknown), later printers often “borrowed” this mark. The first to do so were Ben Judah ben Mordecai of Posen and Samuel ben Moses ha-Levi. They were the first Ashkenazi printers in Amsterdam and had previously worked for Benveniste. One of their first books, the kabbalistic discourses of Menahem Azariah da Fano (Sefer ʻAśarah maʼamaro), published in 1649, is held in the Brisman Collection. In this case, the mark was presumably used with Benveniste’s knowledge and consent, perhaps as a show of support for his former employees.
Here we see his 1654 edition of Solomon ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah, a history of the persecutions the Jews have experienced.
Benveniste’s printer’s device (which may have been the family escutcheon) is shown here: an upright lion facing a tower with a star above. For various reasons (some unknown), later printers often “borrowed” this mark. The first to do so were Ben Judah ben Mordecai of Posen and Samuel ben Moses ha-Levi. They were the first Ashkenazi printers in Amsterdam and had previously worked for Benveniste. One of their first books, the kabbalistic discourses of Menahem Azariah da Fano (Sefer ʻAśarah maʼamaro), published in 1649, is held in the Brisman Collection. In this case, the mark was presumably used with Benveniste’s knowledge and consent, perhaps as a show of support for his former employees.
Source
Heller, Marvin J. "Introduction." In The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxv-xxvii.
Heller, Marvin J. "The Printer's Mark of Immanuel Benveniste and Its Later Influence." Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 19 (1994): 3-20.
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Digital Image: Washington University in Saint Louis
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Citation
“Manuel Benveniste,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 23, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/7013.