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57 Jacob Judah Leon De templo Hierosolymitano … libri IV Helmstadt, 1665 4º: a–c4 ):(4 A–2C4 2D2 155×109mm 4º R 81 (1) Th. |
Engraving from an edition of Jacob Judah Leon’s De templo Hierosolymitano. Leon achieved considerable fame in the mid-seventeenth century through his three-dimensional model of the Temple which was exhibited in Amsterdam; so much so that he himself was referred to as ‘Templo’. Catalogue no.57, plate facing p.35.
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Leon (see previous entry) was so associated in the public mind with his model of the Temple that he was given the name ‘Templo’. The model was displayed with great success in Amsterdam, while his book was translated and published in eight languages. This edition is a Latin translation of 1665 by Johannes Saubertus, with fine plates. It is a straightforward account of the Temple and its contents, and of the nearby Palace of Solomon and the Antonia Tower, and could equally well serve as a description of the model.
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A.K.Offenberg, ‘Jacob Jehuda Leon (1602–1675) and his Model of the Temple’, in J.van den Berg and E.G.E. van der Wall (eds.), Jewish-Christian Relations in the Seventeenth Century (Dordrecht, 1988), pp.95–115; R.H. Popkin, ‘Some Aspects of Jewish-Christian Theological Interchanges in Holland and England 1640–1700’, in van den Berg and van der Wall, op.cit., pp.3–32; C. Provoyeur, Le Temple: Représentations de l’architecture sacrée (Nice, 1982); H.W. Robinson and W. Adams (eds.), The Diary of Robert Hooke, 1672–1680 (London, 1935). |