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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…

Contributor:

Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan

Places:

Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)

Date:

Late 14th to early 15th Century

Subjects:

Print, Theology, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics, Apostasy

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew text in center under archway, flanked by two figures in robes, with a figure on top amid landscape background, and two figures below text under stone archway.
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

Places:

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.