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Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (University of Padua)
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1695

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Medicine, Profession, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Medicine
Facing-page manuscript with Latin text on right-hand page surrounded by floral border and man in circular frame on top and bottom of page, and portrait of man on left-hand side surrounded by floral border and two cherubs with man in frames on top and bottom of page.
Der pinkes (cover)
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Cities, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide)
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This is the title page of Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide), David Pina’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden. Pina was a…

Contributor:

David Pina

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1678

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Scholarship, Education, Profession

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine, Visual & Material Culture
Manuscript page with Latin text and small illustration of man standing beneath a tree.
Geviksn
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).

Contributor:

Avrom Golomb

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Education, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Children

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Print & Book Culture, Visual & Material Culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of leaves in the center.