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First and only edition, seemingly the only surviving copy, of this Hanau-printed abridgement of Alting’s Hebrew grammar (first published in 1654) by the German Hebraist Heinrich van Bashuysen, printed at Bashuysen’s own press for the use of his pupils at the local gymnasium.

Bashuysen was ‘one of the most zealous promoters of the study of Hebrew and rabbinic languages in his native country, introducing them into the grammar schools in Hanau and Schlüchtern with such success that pupils even gave speeches in Hebrew’ (Deutsche Biographie, trans.). He had studied at Leiden and Franeker and was made professor of Oriental languages at the Protestant gymnasium in Hanau in 1701, and professor of theology in 1703. Whilst teaching in Hanau he set up his Typographia Orientalis c. 1709, from which he published over one hundred works, amongst them his Latin translations of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and Abrabanel’s Torah commentary.

Bashuysen explains in his preface that he had written the present abridgement – known also as the Compendium grammaticae Altingianae – for the use of his students several years earlier, but did not intend to publish it, and decided to do so only when the new rector of the gymnasium decided that Alting’s grammar should become the standard textbook for the school’s Hebrew programme.

We are unable to trace any copies on KVK, Library Hub, OCLC, USTC, or VD18.

Schmidt, Anhalt’sches Schriftsteller-Lexikon (1830), p. 20; Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraea (1721), p. 600.

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