See “Jacob Jehudah Leon (Templo), by Israel Solomons,” _Jewish Chronicle_, 30 Oct., 1903. ¹¹ The tract was first printed in Spanish and Dutch in 1642, and not until 1650 did it appear in _Hebrew_. Leon Templo,¹ as our _Haham_ is at times referred to, is supposed to have invented “The Arms of yᵉ most Ancient & Honorable Fraternity, of Free and Accepted Masons.” The original drawing was seen by Laurence Dermott (1720‒1791) when he saw the model of the Temple in 1759‒1760.² He also wrote on the “_Cherubim_” and on the “Ark of the Testimony.” In 1671 he issued the Psalms in _Hebrew_, with a Spanish paraphrase and notes. This was his last published work, in the preface of which he tells us that although he was then sixty-seven years of age, he completed the work in seven months, at times that he could spare from his tutorial duties. Four works in manuscript are still unpublished. After his death, among his sketches were found over two hundred designs to illustrate and elucidate Biblical and Rabbinical passages. These his son _Haham_ Solomon Raphael (_ob._ 1733 _circa_) _de_ Leon Templo presented to Willem Surenhuis, who had them engraved for his edition of the _Mishna_.³ ¹ Templo was assumed as a surname by his descendants. ² Ahiman Rezon, _ibid._ ³ Mischna sive Totius Hebræorum Juris, Rituum, Antiquitatum, ac Legum Oralium Systema, ... Guilielmus Surenhusius.... Amstelædami, ... [1698‒1703] (vi. vols. _fol._) Biographers do not seem to know when and where he died. David Franco Mendes (1713‒1792) tells us that after his London visit he returned to Amsterdam, and although he gives a transcription of his epitaph, consisting of eight lines of _Hebrew_ laudatory verse, no date is mentioned.¹ Dr. M. Kayserling suggests that he died after 1675, that is after his London visit.² There is, however, good authority to surmise that he died in London during his visit. (_Franco_) ‏ חפשיby ¹‏תולדות החכם מחו׳ יעקב יהודה ליאון זצ״ל ‏.רצז-שא _pp_. ‏ המאסף חדש סיון תקמה ² _Jewish Encyclopedia_, 1904, vol. viii. _p._ 1. XXIII. THESOURO DOS DINIM THESOVRO Dos Dinim.... Composto por. Menasseh Ben Israel. Estampado em casa de Eliahu Aboab. An. 5405. (8º. 16 _ll._ (_one blank_) + 625 _pp._ [in four sections]) *2 _Muy Nobres, Magnificos, e Prudentes Senhores, Parnassim deste Kaal Kados de Talmud Torah_.... o Sʳ David Abarbanel Dormido, Parnas da Sedaká, e Talmud Tora.... Menasseh ben Israel. _Amsterdam_ 15 _de_ Hiyar, An. 5405. [B. M.] * * * * * THESOVRO Dos Dinim ultima parte ... ECONOMICA ... _Por_ Menasseh Ben Israel. Amsterdā, na officina de _Ioseph ben Israel seu filho_.¹ 5407. 8º 8 _ll._ (_one blank_) + 210 _pp._ + 4 _ll._