Jewish Consumption and Material Culture in the Early Modern Period
Jewish Consumption and Material Culture in the Early Modern Period
Jewish Consumption and Material Culture in the Early Modern Period
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gorgeous, that it competes <strong>in</strong> artifice with <strong>the</strong> best of <strong>the</strong> entire build<strong>in</strong>g, completely<br />
covered with such curious decoration, that it properly looks like a Palace, <strong>and</strong> surrounded<br />
by admirable columns, decorated with unusual [plantlike] embossment, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
gallantness of its columns. Imitat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> stone's tablet, <strong>the</strong>re is a wooden [plate of] <strong>the</strong> ten<br />
comm<strong>and</strong>ments, so gr<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> costly, that it is illum<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Gallery opposite it, which<br />
is surround<strong>in</strong>g it. [...] David de Castro Tartaz.<br />
Solomon's Temple - Jacobi Leoniti Hebraei, Libellus Effigiei Templi Salomonis,<br />
Amsterdam 1650
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