!["TEMPLO", JACOB JUDAH LEON. Retrato del Templo de Selomo. Middelburg: Symon Moulert, 1642. Title with large woodcut vignette of a shield (displaying a rampant lion rising from the waves) and sailing ships. 4to, modern quarter vellum; slight dampstaining. Wolf III, 1048; Kayserling, 58; Palau, 135633, A.K. Offenberg, Bibliography of the works of Jacob Jehudah Leon (Templo), in: Studia Rosenthaliana 12 (1978), pp. 111-32, no. 2, pp. 115-116; Den Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos, n. 304.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08105_0309_000(105155).jpg?w=1)
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"TEMPLO", JACOB JUDAH LEON. Retrato del Templo de Selomo. Middelburg: Symon Moulert, 1642. Title with large woodcut vignette of a shield (displaying a rampant lion rising from the waves) and sailing ships. 4to, modern quarter vellum; slight dampstaining. Wolf III, 1048; Kayserling, 58; Palau, 135633, A.K. Offenberg, Bibliography of the works of Jacob Jehudah Leon (Templo), in: Studia Rosenthaliana 12 (1978), pp. 111-32, no. 2, pp. 115-116; Den Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos, n. 304.
Not in JTS. First edition of the treatise by Jacob Judah Leon (1603-1675) on the Temple of Solomon. The town of Middelburg had an early Sephardic community in the seventeenth century, consisting mainly of merchants who had moved there from Antwerp. The author, who was educated in Amsterdam, had been appointed Haham in Middelburg. In 1643 however, he moved back to Amsterdam. His studies on the Temple earned him so much fame that he was soon identified with them, earning him the second last name Templo. The author possessed a model of the building which was highly regarded in his own days, and was based on technical details given in various old sources. Templo lived in the Korte Houtstraat in Amsterdam, in a house displaying the sign of Solomon's Temple. One of his models was offered to Queen Henrietta Maria in England in 1643. He developed a full exhibition for travelling and returned with it to England in 1671, hoping to sell it to King Charles II. He is believed to have designed the seal used by the English freemasons during that visit.
For a short biographical sketch of Templo, see: A.K. Offenberg, Jacob Judah Leon Templo's broadsheet of his model of the Temple, in: A.K. Offenberg, E.G.L. Schrijver, F.J. Hoogewoud, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Treasures of Jewish Booklore (Amsterdam 1994), pp. 32-33.
Not in JTS. First edition of the treatise by Jacob Judah Leon (1603-1675) on the Temple of Solomon. The town of Middelburg had an early Sephardic community in the seventeenth century, consisting mainly of merchants who had moved there from Antwerp. The author, who was educated in Amsterdam, had been appointed Haham in Middelburg. In 1643 however, he moved back to Amsterdam. His studies on the Temple earned him so much fame that he was soon identified with them, earning him the second last name Templo. The author possessed a model of the building which was highly regarded in his own days, and was based on technical details given in various old sources. Templo lived in the Korte Houtstraat in Amsterdam, in a house displaying the sign of Solomon's Temple. One of his models was offered to Queen Henrietta Maria in England in 1643. He developed a full exhibition for travelling and returned with it to England in 1671, hoping to sell it to King Charles II. He is believed to have designed the seal used by the English freemasons during that visit.
For a short biographical sketch of Templo, see: A.K. Offenberg, Jacob Judah Leon Templo's broadsheet of his model of the Temple, in: A.K. Offenberg, E.G.L. Schrijver, F.J. Hoogewoud, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Treasures of Jewish Booklore (Amsterdam 1994), pp. 32-33.