JOHANNIS BUXTORFI LEXICON HEBRAICUM ET CHALDAICUM: COMPLECTENS OMNES VOCES TAM PRIMAS QUÀM DERIVATAS, QUAE IN SACRIS BIBLIIS, HEBRAEÂ, & EX PARTE CALDAEÂ LINGUÂ SCRIPTIS EXTANT: INTERPRETATIONIS FIDE, EXEMPLORUM BIBLICORUM COPIÂ, LOCORUM PLURIMORUM. DIFFICILIUM EX VARIIS HEBRAEORUM COMMENTARIIS EXPLICATIONE, AUCTUM & ILLUSTRATUM. Londini (London); Typis Jacobi Junii, & Mosis Bell, Sumptibus Richardi Whitakeri & Samuelis Cartwright, 1646.

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Text reads from right to left. Sixth edition of the "Hebrew and Chaldean Lexicon", a dictionary and grammar originally compiled by Johannes Buxtorf the elder, and completed by his son, Johannes Buxtorf the younger. Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, born in Westphalia, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". According to Moritz Kayserling, he was the "principal founder of Rabbinical study among Christian scholars" (JE vol. 3, p. 444). His colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum was completed by his son, Johannes the Younger. Though unreliable, it served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their studies in Talmud and rabbinics. With bookplate of the great diarist John Evelyn, text remarkably crisp. Beautiful centuries-old full leather binding. [16], 999. 70 pages. Provenance: the sale of the great Shane Collection at Christie's 24 June 1998. Seller Inventory # 005636

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Title: JOHANNIS BUXTORFI LEXICON HEBRAICUM ET ...

Publisher: London, Great Britain

Publication Date: 1646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 6th Edition