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This is an ownership inscription by Italian poet and grammarian Shmuel Arkevolty, found on the title page of Sefer ʻikarim by Joseph Albo (Venice : Giovanni Farri, 1543 or 1544).

The Hebrew text reads:
לה הארץ ומלואה
קנין…

This is the signature of Shimeon Brisman (1920-2004), a librarian, bibliographer, and rabbi who provided the Washington University Libraries with the collection that bears his name.

Shimeon Brisman was born in Poland. At the outbreak of World War…

This is the signature of Shemuel Shemaiah (Samuel Shemaiah or Shemayah) Papo , an Italian rabbi, hakham (Torah scholar) and writer of halakhic responsa.

Born in 1708, most likely in the city of Ragusa where his father Abraham David Papo was…

This is the signature of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

This is the signature of Samson (Shimshon in Hebrew) ben Joshua Moses Morpurgo (1681-1740), an Italian rabbi and physician.

As a child, Morpurgo was educated in Venice and later studied at the University of Padua where he received his medical…

This is the signature of Samuel Apolant (1823-1902), a German rabbi and teacher. Born to innkeeper Lewin Apolant and Miriam Perl, Samuel grew up in Deutsch-Krone, West Prussia. He received a Talmudic education there, and moved to Berlin at seventeen…

This is the signature of Raphael Hanno (1791-1871), a German Christian author.

Hanno was professor of Oriental languages at the University of Heidelberg from 1824 until his death. He focused his writings on the Hebrew language and poetry.

This is the signature of Naḥman Nathan Coronel (also Koronel), a Dutch rabbi, preacher and author.

He was born in Amsterdam in 1810 to a Sephardi father (Rabbi David) and Ashkenazi mother. He studied at the local Talmud Torah and at the…

This is the signature of Moses Gaster (1856-1939), who served as the hakham (rabbi) of the Spanish and Portuguese community in London. Gaster was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and received his doctorate from the…

This is the signature of Moses (also Mosheh) Berlin (1821-1888), a Russian scholar and Jewish government official from Shklov, Belarus.

He was educated at the Universities of Konigsberg and Bonn and worked as a teacher upon completing his studies…