Memoria de la Real Academia de la Historia Sobre la Inscripcion Hebrea de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Tránsito de la Ciudad de Toledo, que con el Titulo de Ilustracion Publicó Don Juan Josef Heydeck el Año de 1795

(SPAIN)

En la Imprenta de Sancha

Madrid

1796

FIRST EDITION. Three fold-out engraved plates

C.H. Krinsky, Synagogues of Europe (1985) pp.335-8; E.H. Lindo, History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal (1848, reprinted 1970), fold-out frontispiece with facsimile of inscriptions

A study of the remarkable Hebrew inscriptions found in El Transito, the impressive House of Worship in Toledo initially consecrated as a synagogue in 1360. Heydeck, a learned though somewhat mendacious convert from Judaism, had published in 1795 a study on the Jewish relics of Toledo. The present work by members of the Spanish Historical Academy proved Heydeck’s work to be spurious. For a revealing portrait of the intellectually audacious escapades of Heydeck in America, England and elsewhere, see C.Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore (1972) p.121-128