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Moses Narboni’s Commentary on Ibn Tufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqzan
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Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…

Contributor:

Solomon Norzi

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Date:

1527

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Philosophy, Animals, Ecology, Death

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Literature
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and an illustration of a naked boy sitting next to a deer on bottom margin of left-hand page.
Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
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This edition of Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed was printed in Sabbioneta, Italy by Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foà. The twelfth-century work was an attempt to reconcile Aristotelianism with…

Contributor:

Moses Maimonides, Cornelio Adelkind

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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1553

Subjects:

Print, Theology, Philosophy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page of Hebrew text under cornucopia archway flanked by standing figures, and wreath at the bottom.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Venice
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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…

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Photographer Unknown

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Venice, Kingdom of Italy (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Women, Philosophy, Portrait, Photography, Travel

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Science & Philosophy
Two women in hats surrounded by pigeons in city plaza, with ornate doorway behind them.