Talk: The Little-Known Hebraica Treasures at Merton College

In 2017 specialist cataloguer Dr Rahel Fronda added full descriptions of Merton’s Hebrew books to Oxford’s online library catalogue. In this talk Dr Fronda discussed some of the particularly significant Hebrew books at Merton and how they came to be here. Attendees had the opportunity to view selected items.

A History of the Book research group event.

Image: Detail from Sefer Kad ha-Kemah (The Receptacle of the Flour), by Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava, printed in Venice in 1545-46; it contains discourses on the fundamentals of religion and morality and was donated to the college in 1673 by Robert Huntington (Fellow).