Mercer, Jean. Luchei dikduka kasda’ah o arama’ah / Tabulae in grammaticen linguae Chaldaeae [Tables of Aramaic or Chaldean Grammar]

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(GRAMMAR)

printer

Guil. Morelium

Place

Paris

Publication

1560

Description

Latin and Aramaic interspersed. Printer’s device on title. Floriated initials

references

Vinograd, Paris 39; Adams, M-1310

summary

Jean Merc(i)er or Mercerus (d. 1567) was a French Christian Hebraist. See EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 44. Part II of the book (pp.107-165) is devoted to “rashei teivoth” or Hebrew abbreviations.

pp.165, (2). Light stains, marginal worming, pp.5-6, 11, and final page tape repaired. Later morocco over marbled boards. Sm. 4to

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