Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium
Subtitle: Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, Samaritanae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Persicae, Aethiopicae, Armenae, Coptae : consilium de earum studio foeliciter instituendo, & de libris quos in hunc finem sibi comparare debent studiosi : in usum tyronum qui linguas istas addiscere desiderant, praecipue eorum qui sumptus ad Biblia polyglotta (jam sub prelo) imprimenda contulerunt : praemittitur praefatio, in qua de hisce linguis, & de textuum, & versionum, quae in dictis Bibliis habentur, antiquitate, authoritate & usu, breviter disseritur, quid[que] in hac editione prae reliquis expectandum sit
By: per Brianum Walton, S.T.D.
Contributors: Garthwait, Timothy, d. 1669
Edition: Editio secunda priori emendatior.
Publisher: Imprimebat Tho. Roycroft, et venales habentur apud Timoth. Garthwait ad oftium minus Boreale Ecclesiae S. Pauli
Published: 1655
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Oriental languages
Description: An abridged version of Walton's introduction to the London Polyglot Bible.  The types for the Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Samaritan were prepared by Roycroft.  The Ethiopian types are in woodcut.
Notes: Printed back to front.

Tisch Library Special Collections copy: First leaf stained from binding turn-ins and nearly detached; other stains throughout.

Tisch Library Special Collections copy: Autograph on t.p. verso: P. Griffin, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford ; full name Philip Griffin on fly-leaf at end.

Tisch Library Special Collections copy: Pen-drawn crest and initials PG inside front cover.

Binding: Contemporary sheep, front inner hinge broken, but spine attached to back of textblock; head of spine defective.

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ESTC R25728.