Author: PFEIFFER, AUGUST:
Title: Critica sacra, de sacri codicis partitione, editionibus variis, linguis originalibus et illibata puritate fontium, interpretatione scripturae legitima, nec non eiusdem translatione in linguas totius universi, de Masora et Kabbala, Talmude denique et Alcorano. Accessere, suisque locis inserti sunt tractatus quatuor, ... Dresden & Leipzig, G. Leschium, 1721.
Description: . Pp. (x), 34, 355, (13). With engraved frontispiece and 18 plates with various characters. Contemporary half calf, worn, hinges cracked and spine with wormholes. 23 lvs with some minor warmholes in inner margin. Sixth edition of this important and wellknown work, first published in 1680. Dr. Pfeiffer (1640-98) was a renowned Orientalist and professor at Wittenberg and Leipzig distinguished for his linguistic talents. This work includes his important "De natura, usu et subsidis linguarum orientalium omnium" with numerous plates of Oriental alphabets and " De compendiaria ratione legendi scripta Rabbinico-Talmudica". Fürst ii,82.

Keywords: Near East, oriental, orient, languages, linguistics, langue, east, asiatic, asian, asie, asia


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