Digitus dei: new discoveryes; : 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.
Digitus Dei is a 1652 London treatise by Thomas Thorowgood, printed for Thomas Slater at the Angell in Duck-Lane, arguing that the lost Jews inhabit America and that Americans descend from them. The first picture is a long border strip of repeated stylised flower, urn and scroll ornaments in dense black print. The second is a bookplate of a coat of arms within scrolling foliage, showing a designer how armorial frames and mantling were arranged on a page.
