https://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/ Hatam Soferet - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:10:07 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios hatam_soferet personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/147414/60078 https://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/450737.html Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:10:07 GMT https://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/450737.html <div><img src="http://www.hasoferet.com/images/blog/koren-siddur-sm.jpg" alt="Koren siddur" title="Koren siddur cover" style="float:right; padding:2px; border:0;"><a href="http://www.hasoferet.com/images/blog/koren-siddur.jpg"><img src="http://www.hasoferet.com/images/blog/koren-siddur-th.jpg" alt="Koren siddur" title="Koren siddur cover, clicky to see bigger version" style="float:right; padding:2px; border:0;"></a></div>The front of the new <a href="http://www.korensiddur.com/">Koren siddur</a>* is very pretty. Just the sort of design I like for my own artwork. <br /><br />Click the thumbnail of the left image to see a bigger version. The right image is where I have highlighted the pretty. Rather indifferently :)<br /><br />Still, even thought it'd make a lovely border for something, one can't very well plagiarise a prayerbook. I mean, it's a <i>prayerbook</i>. That seems to make it at least one degree worse than ordinary plagiarism.<br /><br />So imagine my joy when I went again to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmadonna_Trust_Library">Valmadonna Trust</a> <a href="http://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/396404.html">exhibition</a> and found this:<br /><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://staff.napier.ac.uk/Services/Library/Information/Special+Collections/PsalteriumHebraeumimage.htm"><img src="http://www.hasoferet.com/images/blog/psalterium-hebraeum.jpg" alt="Psalterium Hebraeum" title="Psalterium Hebraeum, clicky for bigger" style="padding:10px; border:0;"></a></div><br /><br />It's the title page of a certain Psalterium Hebraeum, printed in Genoa, in 1516 by Pietro Paolo Porro. <br /><br />I tend to think that when something's that old it's fair game. Koren evidently did! <br /><br />* The inside is <a href="http://jewschool.com/2009/07/10/16973/the-koren-siddur-thank-god/">jolly nice</a> as well.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=hatam_soferet&ditemid=450737" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://hatam-soferet.dreamwidth.org/450737.html images artwork public 1