Illustrations

1. Figure 1. First page from Jacob Ẓahalon’s Or ha-Darshanim (A Manual for preachers) (London, 1717).
2. Figure 2. Title page from Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen’s Shneim-Asar Derashot (Venice, 1594).
3. Figure 3. Title page from Judah Moscato’s Sefer Nefuẓot Yehudah (Venice, 1589).
4. Figure 4. Title page from Judah Assael Del Bene’s Kissot le-Veit David (Verona, 1646).
5. Figure 5. Title page from Azariah Figo’s Binah le-Ittim (Venice, 1653).
6. Figure 6. Title page from Leon Modena’s Midbar Yehudah (Venice, 1602).
7. Figure 7. Manuscript page from a collection of funeral sermons of Abraham of Sant’Angelo.