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Portrait of Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo – Amsterdam, 1628-1629
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Portrait of R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo – the Yashar of Candia. Illustration by W. Delff, after W.C. Duyster, from Sefer Eilim by R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo. [Amsterdam: Menasseh Ben Israel, 1628-1629].
Caption around the portrait: "Ioseph del Medico Cretensis philosophus et medicus aet. XXXVII. Anno M.D.C.XXVIII".
R. Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo of Crete, known as the Yashar of Candia (1591-1665) was a physician, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, a disciple of Galileo Galilei (mentioned several times in his Sefer Eilim, and granted the honorific of Rabbi – "my teacher").
Approx. 13X18 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minute tears to margins of engraving. Repaired with paper to verso. Signs of ink at bottom of engraving, slightly affecting artist's name.
Portraits, Prints and Graphic Works
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