De Originibus, seu, De varia et potissimum orbi Latino ad hanc diem incognita, aut inco[n]syderata historia, quu[m] totius Orientis, tum maxime Tartarorum, Persarum, Turcarum, & omnium Abrahami & Noachi alumnorum origines [...]
Publisher: per Ioannem Oporinum
Published: 1553 [Col.]
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 146
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><b><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Full title:</span></b><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">De Originibus, seu, De
varia et potissimum orbi Latino ad hanc diem incognita, aut inco[n]syderata
historia, quu[m] totius Orientis, tum maxime Tartarorum, Persarum, Turcarum,
& omnium Abrahami & Noachi alumnorum origines, & mysteria
Brachmanum retegente: Quod ad gentium, literarum[que] quib. utuntur, rationes
attinet. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">Ex libris Noachi & Hanochi, totiusque a
vitæ traditionis à Mosis alumnis ad nostra tempora servatæ, & Chaldaicis
literis conscriptæ, Guilielmus Postellus posteritati eruit, exposuit &
proposuit.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">8vo. pp. 135, [1] (blank). Signatures: a-h8, i4. Quarter vellum
with manuscript spine title, edges with red pattern, floral decor on boards. In
Latin, with some text printed in Hebrew. Contains dedicatory letter from the
author to the senate of the city of Besançon. Imprint lacks date, which is
taken from H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe,
1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, P2022. Final line
of text on p. 135: "Valete, 1553. mense septimo a Ianuario primo."
Dedicatory letter also dated 1553.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">First edition. It is in this theoretical investigation of the
spread of human language that Postel mounts his "distinctly Gallic
turn" on the Annian story of civilization, with the Gauls, as descended
from Japhet, "the only people still in existence whose history began
immediately after the Flood”, "the only legal heirs of that direct and
complete dominion over the world with which the Athenians laid false
claim." See A. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger. A Study in the History of
Classical Scholarship, Oxford & New York, 1993, ii: p. 85.</span></p><p></p>

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