Linguarum duodecim characteribus differentium alphabetum, introductio, ac legendi modus longè facilimus :
Linguarum nomina sequens proximè pagella offeret /
Guilielmi Postelli Barentonij diligentia. ...

Description

Main Author

Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581

Related Names

Vidoué, Pierre, -1543, printer.
Lescuyer, Denys, active 1538-1551, bookseller.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Prostant Parisiis : Apud Dionysium Lescuier, sub Porcelli signo, vico Hilario, è regione Diui Hilarij, [1538]

Subjects

Lord's prayer.
Lord's prayer.
Syriac language.
Samaritan Aramaic language.
Grammar.
Armenian language.
Aramaic language.
Alphabets.
Armenian language > Armenian language / Early works to 1800.
Syriac language > Syriac language / Early works to 1800.
Samaritan Aramaic language > Samaritan Aramaic language / Early works to 1800.
Aramaic language > Aramaic language / Early works to 1800.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammar, Comparative and general / Early works to 1800.
Alphabets > Alphabets / Early works to 1800.
Early works.

Note

Originally intended to form part of a projected treatise De affinitate linguarum et Hebraicae excellentia. Cf. Page 9, and Benfey, T. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft.
Includes woodcut type specimens in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Chaldean and other oriental languages.
On verso of title page: Linguarum de quibus hic tractatur, nomina. De Hebraica. Chaldaica. Chaldaica recentiore, quam a transitu fluminis, vocant. Samaritana, quæ prisca Hebraica est. Arabica vel Punica, cuius integram grammaticam sub compendio habes. Indica. Græca. Georgiana. Tzeruiana. Hieronymiana vel Illyrica. Armenica. Latina.
Final page blank.
Signatures: A-H⁴ I⁶.
Title printed in red and black; pictorial woodcut initials.
Includes the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek and Armenian.
"Excudebat P. Vidouaeus Vernoliensis, typis ac characteribus suis mense Martio, anno a partu Virgineo. 1538. Ad calculu[m] Romanu[m]"--Colophon.
Publication date from colophon.

Physical Description

[76] pages ; 23 cm 4to

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