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

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Hammer price: $300

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author

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

printer

J. Bodmer

Place

Zurich

Publication

1649

Description

First edition. Text in Latin, with passages in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, etc.

summary

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.

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.

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