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Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum I
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This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…

Contributor:

Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1744

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page with male figures in various poses with one pointing to a sculpture in the background of seated figure on pedestal with Latin text on it.
Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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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…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribes, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & Catalogues, Visual & Material Culture
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.