Præadamitæ. | Sive | Exercitatio | super Versibus duodecimo, decimotertio, & | decimoquarto, capitis quinti Epistolæ | D. Pauli ad Romanos. | Qvibvs Indvcvntvr | Primi Homines ante Adamum | conditi. | Anno Salvtis, | M.DC.LV. | (_4to._ 22 _ll._ + 297 + 8 _pp._ [Synagogis Ivdæorvm Vniversis.]) [I. S.] In the following year it was translated into English:―― _Men before Adam._ | Or | A Discourse upon the twelfth, | thirteenth, and fourteenth Verses | of the Fifth Chapter of the Epistle | of the Apostle _Paul_ to the | Romans. | _By which are prov’d_, | That the first Men were crea-|ted before Adam. | London, | Printed in the Year, 1656. | (8º. 8 _ll._ + 61 _pp._ + 9 _pp._ + 35 _ll._) [I. S.] _The End of the first Part_ (No more published) _sig._ A.4. “To all the Synagogues to the Jews, dispersed over the face of the Earth.” _sig._ M.8. “Terræ Sanctæ Delineatio” (A map of the Holy Land).¹ ¹ In another issue in the same year the eight preliminary leaves are from another press. [I. S.] XV. ISAAC VOSSIUS ISAAC VOSSIUS was born at Leyden in Holland, one of the sons of the renowned scholar Gerard John Vossius by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis du Jon (Junius) (1545‒1602), French theologian and philologist. All the sons were precocious scholars, but Isaac was undoubtedly the most eminent.... He was invited by Queen Christina of Sweden, one of the most erudite women of her time, to come and shed the lustre of his learning upon Stockholm. He arrived towards the end of 1649, was appointed a Court Chamberlain, and taught the Queen Greek. In 1650 he sold her his father’s library for twenty thousand florins, with the stipulation that he received five thousand florins yearly with board and residence for its superintendence. In 1652 owing to certain differences he left Sweden. In 1655 Manasseh Ben Israel dedicated to him:―― אבן יקרה | Piedra Gloriosa | O | De La | Estatua | De | Nebuchadnesar. | _Con muchas y diversas authoridades | de la S.S. y antiguos sabios._ | Compuesto por el Hacham | Menasseh Ben Israel. | Amsterdam An. 5415. | (_12mo._ 6 _ll._ + 259 _pp._ + 3 _ll._ + 4 etchings at _pp._ 5, 87, 160, 180.) [I. S.] “_All muy noble y doctissimo Señor_ Isaco Vossio, Gentil hombre de la camara de su Magestad, La Reyna de Svedia. _Muy noble y doctissimo Señor, ... Intimo amigo y afficionado servidor de V. M._, Menasseh ben Ysrael. _Amsterdam 25. de Abril, An. 5415._” In a list of Manasseh’s works at the end of the volume, it is catalogued “Piedra preciosa; o de la Estatua de Nebuchadnesar, donde se sexpone lo mas essencial del libro de Daniel.” It was for this small volume that Rembrandt designed and etched four illustrations.¹