Lexicon heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Æthiopicum, Arabicum, conjunctim; et Persicum, separatim. In quo, omnes voces Hebraeae, Chaldaeae, Syrae, Samaritanae, Æthiopicae, Arabicae, & Persicae, tam in MSSis quàm impressis libris, cumprimis autem in Bibliis polyglottis, adjectis hinc inde Armenis, Turcicis, Indis, Japonicis, &c. ordine alphabetico, sub singulis radicibus digestae, continentur. Earumque significationes, omnium praesertim in SS. Hebraeis Bibliis semel tantum occurrentium, multo aliter quam apud modernos, sive Hebraeos, sive Christianos, ex tribus Chaldaeis Targumin, utroque Babylonico, & Hierosolymitano Talmude, vetustissimorum Rabbinorum, commentatoribus, theologis, & philosophis, ... Variorum insuper interpretum difficiles ac discrepantes sententiae, conferuntur & examinantur: quamplurima errata in aliis lexicis, necnon in ipsis Bibliis polyglottis, etiam pravae haud rarò translationes emendantur, & ad verum suum sensum restituuntur. Cui accessit brevis, & harmonica (quantum fieri potuit) grammaticae omnium praecedentium linguarum delinatio. Authore Edmundo Castello, S.T.D. Regiae M. à sacris: linguae Arabicae apud Cantabrigienses professore, post muneris illius ibidem à nobilissimo, honoratissimoq[ue] viro Thoma Adams equiti & baronetto, ... necnon ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis praebendario.
Edmund Castell (1606 - 1685)
Category
Books
Date
1669
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3024489
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : port. ; fol. Running number: 2742. Variant B. Leaf [chi]1 which begins "Carolus R." is misbound after *F1. The final section "Lexici orientalis heptaglotti pars altera ..." is misbound after *F1 and [chi]1 in vol. 1. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece portrait and half-title to vol. 2. With "equiti" on title page altered by hand to read "equite". Pagination: vol. 1: [8] p., 44 columns, [2] p., 339, 342-434, 433-573 columns, [1] p., 1656 columns; vol. 2: 1657-4008 columns. Provenance: pencil code in eighteenth-century[?] hand on second front fly-leaf in vol. 1: "B. Th. M. 6 [over] 35 8". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; double blind fillet frames mitred together at the corners; large blind foliate and strapwork centrepiece stamp, signed with the initials 'AR'; spines have blind roll decoration and remnants of gilt title on brown sheepskin[?] label. Vol. 2 spine cracked, partially missing. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Edmund Castell (1606 - 1685) William Faithorne, The Elder (London c.1616 - London 1691) Jacobus Golius (1596-1667)