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John Baskerville's Book of Common Prayer

... title page Baskerville’s title page for the Prayer Book is remarkable in that he was obliged by his client to forgo his usual ...

Forum topic - ncaleffi - 12 Mar 2008 - 1:00am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Hebrew Type Designs

... specimens from Mr. Raphael Frank’s important little book on Hebrew type designs and its history, printed originally in German, and ... a John, The sample contains a beautiful poetic prayer. “I will praise You, my Father, Master of the Heavens and ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 12 Sep 2008 - 4:54am - 303 comments - 0 attachments

Uppercase germandbls is coming to Unicode

... the enemies of Jesus to the sound of the Lord’s prayer. Make that a Vienna Sausage and Hrant’ll take two — or maybe ... the name of my home town in caps. I can’t set a book cover in small caps when the name of the author has an Eszett in it. ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 9 May 2007 - 7:06pm - 184 comments - 0 attachments

Position of Upper Taamei Mikrah

... loaded with errors all the way from here to Australia. Prayer books — I don’t see the sloppy way. Of course, there are good ... + cd (junior high). I don’t see any sloppy way. This book is really & truly great; from a to z, or alef to tav. No sloppy, or ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 2 Aug 2008 - 8:00pm - 169 comments - 0 attachments

Sheva, custom marks...

... with a dagesh. I found a few sources in the Amidah prayer, the Shmoneh-Esray, where Jews beseech G-d to deliver them from exile, ... I don’t understand the nature of the problem ( the book by Chomsky). But the main question is: did you read/study Kimchi? ...

Forum topic - david hamuel - 25 Sep 2008 - 7:56pm - 167 comments - 0 attachments

what th???!!! {PG-13}

... digitized. It was in some huge honking ringbinder/specimen book we had in the 80s. ... here. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Is it a book about a greedy jew, or a greedy man of the jewish faith? Anyone who claims ... of the general populace. The only way magazines have a prayer of making money is through their print ads. Der Spiegel covers are ...

Forum topic - paul d hunt - 9 Jan 2006 - 12:37pm - 128 comments - 0 attachments

On Ideals from Italy

... It says there: The first It says there: The first book printed entirely in Hebrew letters, Rashi’s commentary on the ... 1513 - Press of Gershon Solomon Cohen in Prague prints prayer book 1520 - Daniel Bomberg of Venice prints the first complete Talmud ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 13 Nov 2008 - 2:04pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Meaning of the Hebrew Letter Forms & Designs

... in other language, such as Shakespeare, the telephone book, or Encyclopedia Britanica. However, no such patter could appear appear in ... very names of G-d, or the name of the author of the poetic prayer. Also, the gematria (numerical equivalent) of all the letters in the ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 8 Aug 2008 - 8:26am - 307 comments - 0 attachments

Looking for a font consistent with old Bible typefaces

... the Doves Bible, it was said ’”The noblest book to look at that was ever printed. The openings of the Books are admirably ... used historically to set both Bibles and Books of Common Prayer. That’s just a start! Oh - - lest I forget - - there is ...

Forum topic - dbeltechi - 19 Aug 2008 - 5:24pm - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Carol Twombly.. Please help me!

... of offprints which was published some time before the book. K.L. — you go far back in history! H.P. — And ... book of photos of young naked women wrapped in transparent prayer shawls. All true ! And that’s why Hrant is such a ...

Forum topic - softbluecries1 - 30 Mar 2007 - 9:13am - 233 comments - 0 attachments