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A dissertation prepared by D. N. Carolo and submitted to Johann Heinrich Michaelis on Cantico Canticorum Salomonis (Song of Songs, Song of Solomon). The text is in Latin, primarily square but also Italic letters, with occasional Hebrew. There is an attractive head-piece at the beginning and several historiated letters. The volume is undated. It appears to be an early eighteenth century imprint. This is supported by the name of Johann Heinrich Michaelis on the title page, as he died in 1738 and that the printer was Andreae Zeitleri, who was active in Halle in the first decades of the eighteenth century.
Johann Heinrich Michaelis was a German Christian theologian and Hebraist; born at Kletterberg July 26, 1668; died at Halle March 10, 1738. He studied Ethiopic under Ludolf at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and became assistant professor of Oriental languages at Halle in 1699 and professor of theology in 1709. His chief work was a text of the Hebrew Bible founded on Jablonski, but with a comparison of nineteen printed editions and five manuscripts of Erfurt. This was published in 1720 at Frankfort-on-the-Main and was reprinted throughout the eighteenth century. Some of his critical annotations were published separately in the same year. Michaelis wrote also a Hebrew grammar (1702); and two works on Hebrew accents (1696, 1700), the latter of which, "Institutio de Accentibus Prosaicis et Metricis," went through five further editions, and was for a long time the standard authority on the subject. He composed also the Latin translation of the Ethiopic psalter published by Ludolf. His great-nephew was Johann David Michaelis (1717-91), a famous German biblical scholar.
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