Basileae: Ludovici Koenig, 1650. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Contemporary pig skin over board, elaborately tooled, spine with 5 raised bands and title on 2. , Notes: This is a lexicon of Chaldean, Talmudic and Rabbinical words observing the degree of similarities between the languages. In the lexicon, Johann Buxtorf II or the son describes the work of his late father, Johann Buxtorf I or the elder, based on autographical notes of the father.
Many of his letters are preserved at the library of the University of Basle and are an important source for the study of the spiritual conditions of his time. The present work was started by the father and took decades to be completed by the son; and although written in the Latin language, it includes Roman, Chaldean, Greek, Hebrew and Gothic type and the organization of the text is according to the Hebrew alphabet. Regarding the origin of the Chaldeans, opinions are divided: Various sources state the geographic origin of the Chaldeans as unknown; the Bible describes the Chaldeans as a people, and again other sources as a semitic people, who migrated, before or during the 6th century B.C., possibly from the Arabian peninsula, into the Chaldean country - the area of Babylonia or southern Babylonia, the land between the lower parts of the Euphrates and the Tigris, situated in the present-day Iraq.
, Size: folio (240x360mm), Pages: Frontis portrait of the author, illustrated title, blank, title, poem, dedication (7), observations and comments (3), lexicon paginated according to double columns 2-2680, index with corrections on last page (63). , Category: Book Antiquities; Book Asia Middle East General; Book Literature; Book Religious Judaism; Book Religious General;. Upper cover stained; some crude 18th century repair to the spine; portrait, illustrated title and title repaired skillfully. Otherwise the text is clean, heavily annotated with contemporary ink on margins. Item #B4966

Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Contemporary pig skin over board, elaborately tooled, spine with 5 raised bands and title on 2. , Notes: This is a lexicon of Chaldean, Talmudic and Rabbinical words observing the degree of similarities between the languages. In the lexicon, Johann Buxtorf II or the son describes the work of his late father, Johann Buxtorf I or the elder, based on autographical notes of the father.
Many of his letters are preserved at the library of the University of Basle and are an important source for the study of the spiritual conditions of his time. The present work was started by the father and took decades to be completed by the son; and although written in the Latin language, it includes Roman, Chaldean, Greek, Hebrew and Gothic type and the organization of the text is according to the Hebrew alphabet. Regarding the origin of the Chaldeans, opinions are divided: Various sources state the geographic origin of the Chaldeans as unknown; the Bible describes the Chaldeans as a people, and again other sources as a semitic people, who migrated, before or during the 6th century B.C., possibly from the Arabian peninsula, into the Chaldean country - the area of Babylonia or southern Babylonia, the land between the lower parts of the Euphrates and the Tigris, situated in the present-day Iraq.
, Size: folio (240x360mm), Pages: Frontis portrait of the author, illustrated title, blank, title, poem, dedication (7), observations and comments (3), lexicon paginated according to double columns 2-2680, index with corrections on last page (63). , Category: Book Antiquities; Book Asia Middle East General; Book Literature; Book Religious Judaism; Book Religious General;.

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