Shelfmark
Gh.6.11
Author
Title
Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium: Hebraicæ, Chaldaicæ, Samaritanæ, Syriacæ, Arabicæ, Persicæ, Aethiopicæ, Armenæ, Coptæ. Consilium de earum studio fœliciter instituendo, & de libris quos in hunc finem sibi comparare debent studiosi. In usum tyronum qui linguas istas addiscere desiderant, præcipue eorum qui sumptus ad Biblia Polyglotta (jam sub prelo) imprimenda contulerunt. Præmittitur præfatio, in qua de hisce linguis, & de textuum, & versionum, quæ in dictis Bibliis habentur antiquitate, authoritate & usu, breviter disseritur, quidq; in hac editione præ reliquis expectandum sit. Per Brianum Walton, S.T.D.
Varying form of title
Caption title: Introductio ad lectionem lingæ Hebraicæ & Chaldaicæ
Edition
Editio secunda priori emendatior..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini, : Imprimebat Tho. Roycroft, et venales habentur apud Timoth. Garthwait ad ostium minus Boreale Ecclesiae S. Paul,, A.D.1655..
Physical description
[4], 96, 112, [4] p. : 15 cm. (12vo)
Note
Text reads from right to left.
Note
"Introductio ad lectionem linguæ Hebraicæ & Chaldaicæ" has caption title and begins separate pagination; register is continuous.
Note
Errata page 96 (96 p. sequence).
Note
Includes index.
Note
p. 69 misnumbered 61; p. 77 misnumbered 7.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R25728
Citation/references note
Thomason, E.1690[1]
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed.), W659
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College from John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
?18th-century plain calf; frame with double blind fillet on cover and one blind fillet along the spine; gold titling on dark leather on spine; red sprinkled edges; two additional flyleaves on front and back of book.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fh.7.19.
Subject
Oriental languages Study and teaching Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Roycroft, Thomas, ? - d. 1677 printer.
Added entry--name
Garthwait, Timothy, ? - d. 1669 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B50333