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Jacob Huli’s Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue)
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Print, Bible, Ladino, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Biblical Commentary
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.
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

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, 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.
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.