Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta quotquot supersunt. edita et inedita ad autographorum optimorumque exemplorum fidem edidit additisque de scriptura et lingua Phoenicum commentariis illustravit Guil. Gesenius.
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
Leipzig
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3175100
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 parts (pars prima: XXVIII, 260p.; pars secunda: 261-481,[1] p.; pars tertia: [2]p.,48 [i.e. 46] leaves of lithographic plates). ill., facsim.. 4to. 3 parts bound as 1 volume. Bound at end: 16 leaves of different sizes with manuscript notes, drawings etc., in ink and pencil, mostly in the hand of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. Also bound in: 'Analysis inscriptionis Phœniciæ in insula Melita repertæ ... interpretante Revdo. Serno. Marmara, ... (3,[1]p. and plate; no date or place of publication). Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library. Pencil signature on pastedown: Wilkinson. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Small circular stamp at foot of title pages of parts 1 and 3: 'Vertrag vom 15. Mai 1846'.[? - not very legible], with arms and coronet or crown; perhaps from Royal Library of Prussia or Saxony]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper sides. Title on spine: Gesenii Monumenta Phoenica.
Makers and roles
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842)