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The dedication page for Charles VI and his wife, Elizabeth Christina
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This dedication page made by Meshulam Zimmel for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711–1740) and his wife, Elizabeth Christina (1691–1750), whose portraits appear on the page, presents three versions of…

Contributor:

Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna

Date:

1733

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Government

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page with three columns of Hebrew, German in Hebrew characters, Latin, and Aramaic text in various fonts and sizes, interspersed with small portraits of a man and a woman, and surrounded by decorative border.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of Jossipon
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The supposed author of Josippon (an account of Jewish history from the Garden of Eden to the destruction of the Second Temple) was Josephus Flavius, though it is now generally believed that the book…

Contributor:

Sebastian Münster

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1541

Subjects:

Print, Scholarship, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page of Latin text.
Synagogue Judaica
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…

Contributor:

Johannes Buxtorf

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1661

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Circumcision, Jewish languages

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.
List of Books
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

Contributor:

Samuel Abbas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture, Lists & catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.