found over two hundred designs to illustrate and elucidate Biblical and Rabbinical passages. These his son Haham Solomon Raphael (ob. 1733 circa) de Leon Templo presented to Willem Surenhuis, who had them engraved for his edition of the Mishna.1 Biographers do not seem to know when and where he died. David Franco Mendes (1713-1792) tells us that after his London visit he returned to Amsterdam, and although he gives a transcription of his epitaph, consisting of eight lines of Hebrew laudatory verse, no date is mentioned. Dr. M. Kayserling suggests that he died after 1675, that is after his London visit.3 There is, however, good authority to surmise that he died in London during his visit. XXIII THESOURO Dos Dinim THESOVRO DOS Dinim. . . . Composto por. Menasseh Ben Israel. Estampado em casa de Eliahu Aboab. An. 5405. (8°. 16 ll. (one blank)+625 pp. [in four sections]) *2 Muy Nobres, Magnificos, e Prudentes Senhores, Parnassim deste Kaal Kados de Talmud Torah....o S' David Abarbanel Dormido, Parnas da Sedaká, e Talmud Tora. . . . Menasseh ben Israel. Amsterdam 15 de Hiyar, An. 5405. THESOVRO Dos Dinim ultima parte [B. M.] Amsterdā, na officina de Ioseph ben Israel seu filho. 5407. 8° 8 ll. (one blank)+210 pp.+4 ll. A2.... Dedicatoria. Aos muy nobres, Magnificos e Prudētes Senhores, os Senhores Abrahā e Ishak Israel Pereyra.... 1 Mischna sive Totius Hebræorum Juris, Rituum, Antiquitatum, ac Legum Oralium Systema, . . . Guilielmus Surenhusius. . . . Amstelædami, [1698-1703] (vi vols. fol.) תולדות חחכם מחו' יעקב יהודה ליאון זצ"ל by חפשי (France) המאסף חדש סיון תקמה .22 .רצז-שא pp. * Jewish Encyclopedia, 1904, vol. viii. p. 1. The author, in his Nishmath Chayyim, 1651, folio 103, bewails the premature death of his son Joseph, the printer of this book. He was, he tells us, a keen Talmudist, and had a perfect knowledge of four languages. He had sent him on a voyage for the first time, and on returning to Amsterdam from Dantzig was shipwrecked. On his second journey the following year to Poland, on nearing Lublin, he died, being at the time about twenty years of age. A3. Este sen intimo, e affeiçoado amigo, o Haha, Menasseh ben Israel Amsterdam 12 de Tamuz, An. 5407. [B. M.] The two parts of Thesouro dos Dinim were subsequently re issued in one volume : Amsterdam Anno 5470 (8°. 4+201+2 ll.)1 [I. S.] XXIV "RETTUNG DER JUDEN," BY Manasseh Ben-ISRAEL Manasseh Ben Israel Rettung der Juden Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Nebst einer Vorrede von Moses Mendelssohn. Als ein Anhang zu des Hrn. Kriegsraths Dohm Abhandlung: [I. S.] 1 This second issue is rarer than the first: 5470 is a misprint for 5407. |