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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Emanuel Colli by the University of Padua, Italy. Designed as a small, illuminated book, its four leaves are decorated with floral borders, and include…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1692
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1690
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Judah Monis
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Boston, Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)
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1735