Ci limitiamo qui a riportare l’art. (di Richard Gottheil e Meyer Kayserling) della Jewish Encyclopedia su Abraham Usque, poiché dà interessanti informazioni anche sull’opera (e ne segnala tre ulteriori edizioni, ciascuna delle quali potrebbe essere quella appartenuta a Spinoza: 1611, 1646, 1661): 'Italian printer; born at Lisbon, where he was known as Duarte Pinel; son of Solomon Usque. Some time after 1543 he went to Ferrara, where he termed himself 'Abraham Usque', and established a large printery, adopting as his imprint a globe with Isa. xl. 31 as the legend. His establishment published some Judaeo-Spanish rituals and Portuguese works, and between 1551 and 1557 it issued about twenty-eight Hebrew books, including an unpointed Hebrew Bible, all of these works being edited by Samuel Zarfati, Isaac alHakim, Menahem b. Moses Israel, and Baruch Uzziel. Usque’s principal work was the valuable Ferrara Bible, bearing the title Biblia en Lengua Española Traducida Palabra por Palabra de la Verdad Hebrayca por Muy Excelentes Letrados, Vista y Examinada por el Oficio de la Inquisicion. Con Privilegio del Ylustrissimo Señor Duque de Ferrara. This Bible, which is a revision of an earlier translation rather than a new version, was issued at the expense of the Spaniard Yom-Tob b. Levi Athias, who, as a Marano, assumed the name 'Jeronimo de Vargas.' Two slightly modified copies (not two editions) of this Bible were struck off, to be submitted to the Inquisition, one of them being dedicated to Duke Ercole de Este, and the other, intended for the Jewish public, inscribed in honor of D. Gracia Nasi. New editions of the Ferrara Bible were published at Salonica in 1568, and at Amsterdam in 1611, 1630, 1646, 1661, 1695, etc. Before leaving Lisbon, Abraham Duarte Pinel published a 'Latinae Grammaticae Compendium' and a 'Tractatus de Calendis' (Lisbon, 1543). The identity of Abraham Usque and Duarte Pinel, as well as of Yom-Tob b. Levi Athias and Jeronimo de Vargas, was first shown by Isaac da Costa in his 'Israel und die Völker' (German transl. by Mann, p. 282). See Jew. Encyc. ii. 269b, s.v. Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias'.