Nouvelle Methode pour apprendre facilement la language hebraique. Dictionnaire de la langue originale hebraique.

CREMIEU, JACOB

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1838

Autograph Manuscript written in French and Hebrew on paper. Apparently unpublished. Volume One (of two) only; Letters: A-Kh.

The original manuscript of the first Hebrew-French dictionary. This dictionary - a work of twenty years - was produced by Jacob Cremieu (1776-1849?) of Carpentras, although it appears that it was never published. Like all dictionaries, it is arranged alphabetically, however it utilizes the root-letters of words as the means by which it is organized in a two-part system. A detailed foreword by the author, recounts how the work came to be and what his scholarly intentions were.