Typographia, or The printers' instructor Volume 2; including an account of the origin of printing, with biographical notices of the printers of ... of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesd - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...Eleven is made of two £efc, and called Eeaz-dek; Twelve of Eek, with Doo, and called Dooaz-dth, Sic. There are no other characters used In the Persian numerals, for twenty is made of the short mark used for ten with that two placed after it; and twenty is written one two. A hundred is compounded of the one, and two short marks or cyphers; and ten thousand is written one and four cyphers, similar to the English. As the Persian letters vary their forms according to their places in the woid, so likewise they vary according to those characters with which they are combined, as may be seen in the following specimen: It is stated hy Theodoret and 8t. Chrysostom, that the Ecriptares were very anciently translated into the Persic tongne; althongh there he neither any acconnt of the conversion of the whole Persian nation to Christianity, nor are there any fragments of this original version extant. Ahont the eleveoth or twelfth centary, a Jew made a faithfni translation of the Hebrew Pentateuch, for the benefit of the Jew in Persia, which was afterwards printed in the fourth volume of Bishop Walton's Polyglott Bible; and he also mentions two Persic versions of the Psalms, yet in manuscript, one of which was executed by a Portuguese Monk in the year 1618, and the other by some Jesuits from the Vulgate Latin. Brian Walton likewise published an ancient and valuable Persian translation of the four gospels, from a manuscript dated A.D. 1314, in the possession of Dr. Pococke, which was made from the Syriac, and in which Syriac words were sometimes retained, having a Persian translation. Another version, supposed to have been made from the Greek, was published in 1652-57. All these however, having become obselete, Lieut. Col. Colebrooke completed and published the four ...
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