Obj. ID: 40633  Cippi hebraici sive Hebraeorum, tam veterum, prophetarum, patriarcharum., 1662

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Second Edition.  The first edition of Cippi Hebraici (Tombs of the Hebrews) is a Latin translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575, no copy extant). The content of the book deals with descriptions of the tombs of the righteous and of the Holy Places of Eretz Israel.It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazi community of Safed.  See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Israel (1977), pp. 80 and 248. The book is printed with Hebrew and Latin text with the occasional use of Arabic as well. There are four engraved plates, three of them double page.  One depicts the Holy tombs in style of Itinerareum while another shows ancient Jewish coins. There was a second edition published three years later.