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CINQUARBRES, Jean et al.
Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae, Iohanne Quinquarboreo Hebraicarum literarum in academia Parisiensi professore regio, authore. Cum annotationibus Petri Vignalii ... Accessit Gilb. Genebrardi ... Tractatus de syntaxi, et poetica Hebraeorum. Insuper Roberti Bellarmini ... Exercitatio grammatica in Psal. XXXIIII. Et alphabetum rabbinicum ad calcem grammatices ... Paris, Guillaume Le Bé, 1609.
4to, pp. [20], 184, 32; text in Latin and Hebrew, the Exercitatio grammatica with its own title-page and pagination, engraved initials and headpieces; occasional light dampstaining, a few small ink marks; a good copy in contemporary limp vellum; worn and marked, losses to spine and to fore-edge of lower cover, lower hinge split; the Hebrew alphabet written to upper cover, annotations in Latin and Hebrew in a neat contemporary hand to c. 110 pp., ownership inscription to title-page ‘Majoris monasterii congregationis S. Mauri 1694'.
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Linguae Hebraicae institutiones absolutissimae, Iohanne Quinquarboreo Hebraicarum literarum in academia Parisiensi professore regio, authore. Cum annotationibus Petri Vignalii ... Accessit Gilb. Genebrardi ... Tractatus de syntaxi, et poetica Hebraeorum. Insuper Roberti Bellarmini ... Exercitatio grammatica in Psal. XXXIIII. Et alphabetum rabbinicum ad calcem grammatices ...
A thoroughly annotated copy of Jean Cinquarbres’s popular Hebrew grammar, formerly in the possession of the Benedictine Congregation of St Maur.
Cinquarbres (d. 1587) served as professor of Hebrew and Syriac at the Collège de France, where he was a highly regarded and popular teacher, his works on the Hebrew language running through several editions.
The Maurists, founded in 1621, enjoyed a high reputation for scholarship. The ownership inscription here implies that this copy belonged to their chief house of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. The annotations in Latin and Hebrew are by an attentive student of the Hebrew language and attest to their steady progress; they include a particularly close study of the Hebrew text of Psalms 1 and 34.
USTC 6010709.