Blaisio Ugolino (also known as Blasius or Biagio, surname Ugolini or Ugolinus) (born c. 1700) was an Italian

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. He is best known for a huge collection of treatises on Jewish antiquities.

Life

Ugolino was born in

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. He is stated to have been a

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, and was certainly well acquainted with

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ic literature.

Works

Ugolino is known for the huge collection of treatises on Jewish antiquities, written in

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, which he brought together in his ''Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum'' (34 vols., Venice, 1744–69). In this work he reprinted most of the seventeenth-century treatises on Jewish antiquities.By Samuel Bochart,

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, Clavering, Salomon Deyling, Goodwin,

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, Pierre Daniel Huet,

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, Opitz, Pfeiffer,

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, Adriaan Reland, Jacob Rhenferd, Saubertius i.e. Johann Saubert, John Selden, Carolus Sigonius, John Spencer, Jacobus Trigland,

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, Johann Christoph Wagenseil, and

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. He also obtained fresh contributors, and translated himself from the

Midrash ''Midrash'' (;"midrash"
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im. The subjects treated are as follows: (a) Festivals, i. (b) General antiquities, ii.-iv. (c) Geography, v.-vi. (d) Priests and temple, vii-xiii. (e) Midrashim, xiv.-xvii. (f) Talmud, xvii.-xx. (g) Ritual and synagogue, xxi. (h) Sects and proselytes, xxii. (i) Gentile deities, xxiii. (j) Jewish law, xxiv.-xxvii. (k) Numismatics, xxviii. (l) Costume, marriage, and medicine, xxix.-xxx. (m) Poetry and music, xxxi.-xxxii. (n) Death and burial, xxxiii. Biblical, Hebrew, author, and subject indices are contained in vol. xxxiv. Ugolino himself translated the treatises Menaḥot and Zebaḥim (vol. xix.); Pesaḥim, Sheḳalim, Yoma, Sukkah, Rosh ha-Shanah, Ta'anit, Megillah, Ḥagigah, Beẓah, Mo'ed Ḳaṭan, Ma'aserot, Ma'aser Sheni, Ḥallah, Orlah, and Bikkurim (vols. xvii.-xviii.); Sifra, Sifre, and Tosefta (vols. xvii.-xix.); besides a part of Maimonides' "Yad" and of Abraham Portaleone's "Shilṭe ha-Gibborim".

References

Works by and about Blaisio Ugolino in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
*http://153.106.5.3/ccel/schaff/encyc12/Page_54.html *

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