Kats, Ma’aseh Toviyah, 1708 (π1r)

This title page combines both Hebrew and roman type, indicating its origin at a Hebrew print studio in Venice. The main part of the title reads, “Part one of the book of worlds or Ma’aseh Toviyah containing the four worlds. And it is divided into five parts. The first part describes the world above, that is the spiritual world. The second the world of the middle, that is the world of the planets. The third is the lower world that is our world. The fourth is the small world, that is The Man. The fifth in the foundations of the world.”

This title page combines both Hebrew and roman type, indicating its origin at a Hebrew print studio in Venice. The main part of the title reads, "Part one of the book of worlds or Ma'aseh Toviyah containing the four worlds. And it is divided into five parts. The first part describes the world above, that is the spiritual world. The second the world of the middle, that is the world of the planets. The third is the lower world that is our world. The fourth is the small world, that is The Man. The fifth in the foundations of the world."

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Toviyah Kats, Ma’aseh Toviyah. Venice: Stamparia Bragadina, 1708. (sig. π1r)

U.S. National Library of Medicine, WZ 260 K187m 1708 (copy 1) (public domain)

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  • written by Colette Calegari
  • thanks to to Michelle (Chesner) Margolis for help with the Hebrew