Digitus dei: new discoveryes
Subtitle: with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Iewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the Earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr. Iohn Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh ben Israell, a chief rabby
By: By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D
Contributors: Dury, John, 1596-1680; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657; Montezinos, Antonio de, -approximately 1650
Publisher: printed for Thomas Slater, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angell in Duck-Lane
Published: 1652
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Jews; Lost tribes of Israel; Indians of North America
Other titles: Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes.; Jewes in America, or, Probabilites that the Americans are Jewes.
Work titles: Jewes in America. Part 1.
Notes: A reissue, with cancel title page, of "Jewes in America", part 1, printed London, 1650 (Wing T1067)

"An epistolicall discourse of Mr. Iohn Dury, to Mr. Thorowgood, concerning his conjecture that the Americans are descended from the Israelites. With the history of a Portugall Iew, Antonie Monterinos, attested by Manesseh ben Israel, to the same effect", p. [29-44], 1st count, has separate caption title.

"Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are Jewes", p. [1]-128, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"The relation of Master Antonie Monterinos, translated out of the French copie sent by Manaseh ben Israel", p. 129-136 and p. [1-3], 2nd and 3rd counts, has separate caption title.

Caption title on p. 1, 2nd count: Jewes in America, or, Probabilites that the Americans are Jewes.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 recto blank) a-e⁴ B-S⁴ T² (T2 verso blank)

Errata: foot of p. [3], 3rd count.

Title printed within single rule border; woodcut head pieces; initials.

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) T1066.

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland, 37.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:423.

European Americana 652/196.

English short title catalogue R219280.