Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
Iehudah Machabeu
1655

This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It was produced in La Rochelle, France.
This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It was produced in La Rochelle, France.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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Creator Bio
Iehudah Machabeu
Iehudah Machabeu was the pen name of Louis Nunes Dovale, a scribe and member of the Spanish and Portuguese community in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. Between 1646 and 1654 he lived in Brazil. He was known as an outstanding calligrapher, adept at many different kinds of scripts, which he offered as choices for his clients. During the Eighty Years’ War, he forged Spanish documents for Dutch merchants who wanted to flout the Spanish embargo.
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