Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq

[3] Zaddiq is known also for being reported to the Amsterdam authorities as a wife-beater: testimony given in court by a number of witnesses showed he had beaten his wife (apparently he had a history of being violent toward her[3]) with a stick and thrown her down the stairs.

[4] In the framed colophon, in the first line it reads: Hebrew: ציור מצב ארצות כנען, lit.

'A Drawing of the Situation of the Lands of Canaan' The map was based on the work of Christian Kruik van Adrichem.

According to Rehav Rubin, "This Jewish element perhaps gives voice to the author's desire to visit Eretz Yisrael or his deep yearning for the reestablishment of the Judean kingdom".

The map was to help Jews become acquainted with the Holy Land that God had given them, and he added the portrait "so that my people will preserve a good keepsake of me".