Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NIETO’S CELEBRATED REPLY TO THE INQUISITION. 1705 A.D. [98] ANNUNCIAZAM (Diogo da), Archbishop of Granganor. Sermam do Auto da Fe. Que se celebrou na Praza do Rocio desta Cidade de Lisboa, juncto dos Pazos da Inquisizam, em 6 de Setembro do Anno de 1705. Em presenza de suas Altezas, pregado Pelo [Illustrissimo, & Reverendissimo Senhor D. Diogo da Annunciazam Justiniano, do Conselho de S. Magestade, que Deos guarde, & Arcebispo que foy de Cranganor. Together with the following:— Respuesta a Sermon, Predicado por el Arcobispo de Cangranor, Enel Auto de Fe; Celebrado en Lisboa, en 6, Setiembre Anno 1705. Por el Author de las Noticias Reconditas de la Inquisicion. Obra Posthuma. 8vo, old calf, with silver heart-shaped clas. (Lisbon) London, 1705. £10 10s The author of the above was Nieto. 1711 A.D, [99] EISENMENGER (J. A.). Entdecktes Judenthum. 2. vols, ato, caly. Keentesbere, 1711: £6 6s The famous work which was confiscated by the Emperor of Germany because of the libels which were contained therein. The work is a compilation of legends and inventions which the author, a Professor at Heidelberg, published in order to obtain the banishment of the Jews from the Holy Roman Empire. Johann Andreas Hisenmenger was born in Mannheim, 1654. The son of an official in the service of the Elector of the Palatinate, Eisenmenger received a good education, and distinguishing himself at Heidelberg by his zeal for Hebrew studies, he was sent by the Elector to England and Holland to continue them there. In Amsterdam he met three Christians who had been converted to Judaism, and this filled him with indignation. For 19 years he studied Rabbinical literature, assisted by Jews, first in Heidelberg, and afterwards in Frankfort-on-the-Main, pretending that he desired to be converted to Judaism. Having collected from Rabbinical literature all that was calculated to bring it into disrepute, he published his Entdecktes Judenthum ’’ (Judaism unmasked), which has remained the arsenal for detractors of Talmudic literature down to the present day. (This is the work we offer for sale above.) The work, in two large quarto volumes, appeared in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1700, and the Prince Elector took great interest in it, appointing Eisenmenger Professor of Oriental languages in the University of Heidelberg. The Jews, who feared that the publication of this book would give additional strength to the prejudice against them, denounced it as a malicious libel. The court Jew, Samuel Oppenheimer, in Vienna, was chiefly instrumental in procuring an order of confiscation from the Emperor, who commanded that the whole edition of 2,000 copies should be placed under lock and key. With him others worked for the same end, including Jospa von Geldern, the great-grandfather of Heinrich
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