Antisemitism. Paulo Medici - Ritus ac mores Hebraeorum, engraved illust., 1758, in Latin
Ritus ac mores Hebraeorum. Italico idiomate refutati, a doctore Medici Paulo, nunc additis quibusdam latine redditi, notisque hebraicis illustrati a Nicolao Rosty.
(The rites and manners of the Hebrews. Refuted in the Italian idiom, by Doctor Paul Medici, now rendered in Latin with some additions, and illustrated by Nicolaus Rosty in Hebrew notes).
Tyrnau, Jesuit printing company, 1758, 16 pp 276 pp., 4 pp. engraved book decorations, orig. leather binding, 20.5 x 13.5 cm., exlibris of Lajos Márton
Condition: ex-library stamps; front cover detached, spine damaged; worm holes near spine throughout the book; most of pages with pale foxing.
Weight: 355 gr.
Medici was a professor of Hebrew in Florence. His work, whose publication the Jewish community of Rome initially managed to prevent, but which appeared in Florence in 1736, was widely distributed and was often republished.
Lajos Márton (Székelyudvarhely, February 27, 1891 – Budapest, January 26, 1953) painter, illustrator, church painter, stamp designer, graphic designer, poster designer
Tyrnau) is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.