Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus. * Bound With: Pirke Aboth (Hebrew and Latin), and the Book of Daniel (Aramaic text with Hebrew and Latin translations). Meinard `a Dreunen, 1665

LEUSDEN, JOHANN.

F. Halma

Utrecht

1682

Second edition. Nine engraved plates (including frontispiece) depicting Biblical and 17th century Jewish customs (home and synagogue). A facsimile of the frontispiece appears in EJ Vol. 11, col. 63. The frontispiece shows the destruction of the Temple with Israel depicted as a queen being carried off into captivity. Latin text interspersed with Hebrew and Greek.

Rubens 291-98 (without frontispiece); EJ, XI 63 (illustrating frontispiece); Furst II, p. 235.

Johann Leusden (1624-1699) was a professor of Hebrew at Utrecht University. He is most famous for having produced in collaboration with the Amsterdam publisher Joseph Athias the magnificent Biblia Hebraica (1661) which served as a model for publications of the Bible up to the 19th century. Leusden also translated the register of 613 commandments that heads Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Utrecht, 1656). EJ, Vol. 11, cols. 63-64. None of the bibliographers we consulted, including Freimann and Furst, mention the translation of Pirke Aboth and Daniel.