Author: PFEIFFER, AUGUST:
Title: Critica sacra, de sacri codicis partitione, editionibus variis, linguis originalibus et illibatá 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 tractatus quatuor, ... Dresden, Mart. Gabriel Hübner, 1680.
Description: . Pp. (xiv), 564, index (16), 47. Frontispiece missing. With 17 plates (of 18) with various characters. (Plate E. "Syllabarium aethiopicum" is missing). Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine, worn and binding shaken. With browning throughout. Old annotations. First edition, reissued several times, of this important linguistic work. The plates depict type specimen of Syriac, Coptic, Sinica, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Iberian, Armenian, etc. Dr. Pfeiffer (1640-98) was a renowned Orientalist and professor at Wittenberg and Leipzig distinguished for his linguistic talents. Fürst ii,82.

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