Introduction From Leeser Rosenthal to today''s Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Adri K. Offenberg   12 January 1290 1.  The Completion of the Esslingen Machzor Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Center NAtional de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris   Around 1300 2.  Sefer Or Zarua and the legend of Rabbi Amnon Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York   10 June 1386 3.  Hanna bat Menahem Zion finished her copy of the Sefer Mitzwot Katan Collette Sirat, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris   September 1446 or 1447 4.  Mordecai Finzi''s copy of a work by Averroes Malachi Beit-Arié, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem   1474 5.  The Defensorium Fidei contra Judaeos printed at Utrecht Gerard van Thienen, Royal Library, Den Haag   1484-1498 6.  Four Italian Judaica incunabula Dennis E. Rhodes, British Library, London   13 December 1493 7.  The first printed book produced at Constantinople Adri K. Offenberg, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam   1542 8.  Elijah Levita''s Shermot Devarim printed at Isny Herbert C. Zafren, Hebrew Union College, Klau Library, Cincinnati, Ohio   1569-1572 9.  Christopher Plantin''s Biblia regia Elly Cockx-Indestege, Royal Library, Brussels   1606 10.  A Hebrew map in the work by Hugh Broughton Jan W.H. Werner, Amsterdam University Library   Around 1617 11.  Isaac Franco''s memorandum on the legal position of Sephardi Jews in Holland Arend H. Huusen, Jr., State University, Groningen   1626 12.  Nicolaes Briot and Menasseh ben Israel''s first Hebrew types John A. Lane, Amsterdam University Library   1632-1677 13.  Benedictus de Spinoza Richard H. Popkin, Washington University, St. Louis and University of California, Los Angeles   After 1652 14.  Jacob Judah Leon Templo''s broadsheet of his model of the Temple, Adri K. Offenberg, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam   21 June 1655 15.  A show of hands by the Sephardi writing-master Iehudah Machabeu Ton Croiset van Uchelen, Amsterdam University Library 1662 16.  An illustrated Minhagim book printed in Amsterdam Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan   1664 17.  Saul Levi Mortera''s magnum opus Herman P. Salomon, State University of New York at Albany   1666 18.  The Sabbatean movement in Amsterdam Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem   1675 19.  Romeijn de Hooghe and the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam Judith C. E. Belinfante, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam   1678-1679 20.  Two Yiddish Bibles printed in Amsterdam Marion Aptroot, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.   1679 21.  Isaac [Fernando] Cardoso''s Las excelencias de los Hebreos Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University, New York   1683 22.  Daniel Levi de Barrios''s Triumpho del govierno popular Wilhelmina Chr. Pieterse, Municipal Archives, Amsterdam   1688 and 1792 23.  Two Hebrew books with silver bindings Karel A. Citroen, Baarn   1692 24.  Hebrew printing on coloured paper Brad Sabin Hill, British Library, London   1694 25.  Stephanus Morinus''s Exercitationes e linguia primaeva Nico A. van Uchelen, University of Amsterdam   21 August 1697 26.  A Portuguese festival poem from Amsterdam Harm den Boer, University of Amsterdam   1699/1700 27.  The portrait of Jechiel Michel ben Nathan of Lublin Anna E. C. Simoni, Gillingham, Dorset, UK   1719-1724 28.  The Grand Tour of Abraham Levi ben Menahem Tall Emile G. L. Schrijver, University of Amsterdam   1730 29.  Nathan ben Simson of Meseritz''s Prayers for the New Moon Edward van Voolen, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam   1734 30.  A ''Konstboeken-binderij'' luxury binding Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Royal Library, Den Haag   1738 31.  The Rosenthaliana Leipnik Haggadah Iris Fishof, Israel Museum, Jerusalem   1741 32.  Eleasar Soesman''s Mohar Yisrael Jan Wim Wesselius, University of Amsterdam   1741 33.  The ''Otiyyot Amsterdam'' of Jacob ben Judah Leib Shamas Emile G. L. Schrijver, University of Amsterdam   1768 34.  The Tablets of the Law at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Shalom Sabar, Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem   After 1771 35.  The priestly blessing: publishers'' bindings by Proops/STRONG Kees Gnirrep, Amsterdam University Library   1779 36.  David Friedländer''s Lesebuch für jüdische Kinder Zohar Shavit, Tel Aviv University   1795-1812 37.  A Yiddish chronicle of the Batavian Republic Ariane D. Zwiers, Free University, Amsterdam   1797-1798 38.  The Diskursen of the Neie and the Alte Kille Jozeph Michman, Institute for Research on Dutch Jewry, Jerusalem   Circa 1800 39.  Leeser Rosenthal''s only Yiddish manuscript Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld, University of Amsterdam   1805-1847 40.  The Protocol of the Jewish community of Uithoorn