Creator Bio
Moses Mendez Coutinho
16th to Early 17th Century
Moses Mendez Coutinho was a member of a prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. In 1696 he bought the printing house of David de Castro Tartas, which he owned until 1711. Among the works he published was a Torah with the Targum Onkelos with Rashi’s commentary, in a print run of five thousand copies.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Sefer Raziel (The Book of Raziel)
Sefer Raziel (also known as The Book of Raziel the Angel) is a book of practical kabbalah that may have been composed in the thirteenth century, though scholars believe parts of it date from earlier…