MEIR (Moses Meir) BEN EPHRAIM OF PADUA
- MEIR (Moses Meir) BEN EPHRAIM OF PADUA
- MEIR (Moses Meir) BEN EPHRAIM OF PADUA (d. 1583), scribe,
printer, and teacher in Mantua. Meir was presumably born in Padua but
lived in Mantua, where he served in various communal capacities. Meir's
exceptional talent and his skill as a scribe were attested to by his
disciple, abraham portaleone . Meir noted down detailed
descriptions of all 43 Torah scrolls written by him. Questions addressed
to his close friend, Moses b. Abraham provencal , the rabbi of
Mantua, indicate Meir's rabbinical scholarship, as does his treatise on
the diacritical marks of the Torah, Rimzei ha-Tagim. In 1556
Meir founded a printing establishment at Mantua, in collaboration with
Jacob b. Naphtali of Garolo (d. c. 1570), and his considerable
contribution to the printing of Hebrew books included the first edition
of the Zohar (1558–60).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
D.W. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909),
323–33; Kaufmann, in: JQR, 11 (1899),
266–90; S. Simonsohn, Toledot ha-Yehudim be-Dukkasut
Mantovah, 2 (1964), 531f.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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