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
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3024490
Summary
Bibliographic description
2.v; [10]p.; 44 cols.; 339,342-434,433-573 cols., [1]p.; 4008 cols., frontis. . ill.., port.. . fol.. Bound in 2 vols. With the sequence of 44 col, [2] p., 573 col. bound at end of second vol. The first sequence is the same variant as the Belton copy: '339, 342-434, 433-573' cols., and cols. 399-401 misnumbered 401-403; the second sequence is '1108, 1108-1656; 1657-4008 col.' i.e. as ESTC but for one un-numbered leaf following col. 1656 [this is probably a v.2 titlepage].. Provenance: In ink, upside down on verso of cols. 571-573 of the first sequence 'to Roberts' (probably = John Robartes (1606-1685), First Earl of Radnor).. Binding: Sewn on 6 supports. Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf. Blind tooled double filet double frame, with cornerpieces. Surface very worn. Rebacked, nineteenth century, with new endpapers and pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Edmund Castell (1606 - 1685) William Faithorne, The Elder (London c.1616 - London 1691) Jacobus Golius (1596-1667)