Lexicon heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Æthiopicum, Arabicum, conjunctim; et Persicum, separatim. . In quo, omnes voces Hebrææ, Chaldææ, Syræ, Samaritanæ, Æthiopicæ, Arabicæ, & Persicæ, tam in MSSis qum̀ impressis libris, cumprimis autem in Bibliis polyglottis, adjectis hinc inde Armenis, Turcicis, Indis, Japonicis, &c. ordine alphabetico, sub singulis radicibus digestæ, continentur. Earumque significationes, omnium præsertim in SS. Hebræis Bibliis semel tantum occurrentium, ... Variorum insuper interpretum difficiles ac discrepantes sententiæ, conferuntur & examinantur: ... Cui accessit brevis, & harmonica (quantum fieri potuit) grammaticæ omnium præcedentium linguarum delinatio. Authore Edmundo Castello, S.T.D. Regiæ M. à sacris: linguæ Arabicæ apud Cantabrigienses professore, ... necnon ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis præbendario.
Edmund Castell (1606 - 1685)
Category
Books
Date
1669
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3024488
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10]p.; 44 cols.; 339,342-434,433-573 cols., [1]p.; 4008 cols., frontis. . ill.., port.. . fol.. Imperfect: lacks the portrait frontispiece. Bound as 2v. Panelled blue morocco (faded), gilt (eighteenth-century). Provenance: Bookplates: John Brownlowe, viscount Tyrconnel; Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark onflyleaf: A:I.n.14/15; II 6; and B/5.
Makers and roles
Edmund Castell (1606 - 1685) William Faithorne, The Elder (London c.1616 - London 1691) Jacobus Golius (1596-1667)