Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici [“Tombs of the Hebrews.”]

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Samuel Broun

Heidelberg

1659

First edition. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic. Four engraved plates (three double-page), one depicting Jewish tombs and monuments, another of ancient Judean coins. Neat, learned marginalia. * From the collection of Rev. Heman (Zvi) Shandel (1847-1924) of Ramsgate, the officiant at the funeral of Sir Moses Montefiore and keen collector of Montefioriana.

Tobler 71.

Cippi Hebraici is a Latin translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575 - no copy extant); a description of the graves of the righteous and of the Holy Places of Eretz Israel. It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazic Community of Safed. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977), pp. 80 and 248.