Linguarum duodecim characteribus differentium alphabetum, introductio, ac legendi modus longè facilimus
Subtitle: Linguarum nomina sequens proximè pagella offeret
By: Guilielmi Postelli Barentonij diligentia. ...
Contributors: Lescuyer, Denys, active 1538-1551, bookseller; Vidoué, Pierre, -1543, printer
Published: 1538
Language: lat
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Grammar; Samaritan Aramaic language; Early works to 1800; Syriac language; Aramaic language; Armenian language; Alphabets; Lord's prayer
Other titles: Lingvarvm duodecim characteribvs differentivm alphabetvm introdvctio; Lord's prayer.; Lord's prayer. Hebrew.
Notes: Publication date from colophon.

"Excudebat P. Vidouaeus Vernoliensis, typis ac characteribus suis mense Martio, anno a partu Virgineo. 1538. Ad calculu[m] Romanu[m]"--Colophon.

Includes the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek and Armenian.

Title printed in red and black; pictorial woodcut initials.

Signatures: A-H⁴ I⁶.

Final page blank.

On verso of title page: Linguarum de quibus hic tractatur, nomina. De Hebraica. Chaldaica. Chaldaica recentiore, quam a transitu fluminis, vocant. Samaritana, quæ prisca Hebraica est. Arabica vel Punica, cuius integram grammaticam sub compendio habes. Indica. Græca. Georgiana. Tzeruiana. Hieronymiana vel Illyrica. Armenica. Latina.

Includes woodcut type specimens in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Chaldean and other oriental languages.

Originally intended to form part of a projected treatise De affinitate linguarum et Hebraicae excellentia. Cf.  Page 9, and Benfey, T. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft.

Adams P2029

Brunet IV, col. 837

Binding: vellum; ink title (faded) on front board; signature on front free endpaper and ink inscription on title page.

Bound with: Guilielmi Postelli Baren. Doleriensis De originibus, seu, De Hebraicae linguae & gentis antiquitate, déque variarum linguarum affinitate, liber ... Prostant Parisiis : Apud Dionysium Lescuier, 1538.