The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Eight: Theology, Philosophy, Law, and Economics

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Lot 2648
  • 2648

Estienne, Robert (1503-1559?).

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Description

  • Phrases hebraicae, seu loquendi genera hebraica quae in veteri testamento passim leguntur, ex commentariis Hebraorum, aliisque doctissimorum virorum scriptis explicata. Thesauri linguae hebraicae altera pars. [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, (1 February) 1558
8vo (152 x 95mm.), 1002, [2]pp., last leaf a blank, binding: seventeenth-century English panelled calf

Provenance

From the library of John Morris with his name and Greek motto (see T.A. Birrell, The library of John Morris, 1976, where this work is not listed). Another inscription, "Sum R G".

Catalogue Note

There are a few manuscript notes of Hebrew words written in the margins. There is a reference on p. 539 to Selden's De jure naturali & gentium which was published in 1640.