De Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano [“Of the Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple in the Arch of Titus.”]

RELAND, HADRIAN.

William Broedelet

Utrecht

1716

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with Greek and Hebrew. Several foldout engravings of Temple vessels and appurtenances. Extensive Latin marginalia in an old hand

Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was Professor of Oriental Languages and Antiquities at Utrecht. Reland drew upon a vast array of classical authors, Talmudic literature and church historians, which he quotes in the original. See EJ, Vol. XIV, col. 64.