Thesaurus philologicus, seu, Clavis scripturae: qua quicquid fere orientalium Hebraeorum maxime, & Arabum, habent Monumenta de Religione.

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HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Thesaurus philologicus, seu, Clavis scripturae: qua quicquid fere orientalium Hebraeorum maxime, & Arabum, habent Monumenta de Religione.

<<First edition.>> Text in Latin, with passages in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, etc. pp. (14), 616. Slightly foxed in places, single worm activity entering from rear cover and affecting few letters of final two leaves. Contemporary vellum. 4to.

Zurich: J. Bodmer 1649

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

Hottinger (1620-67), a Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegisis. The present work is a polyglot thesaurus of the Bible.