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[37], 194, 96, 144, 185 pp. octavo 160:95 mm., usual light age staining, nice margins, some ff. loose. A good copy bound in contemporary leather over boards, later spine, rubbed. |
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Collection of works by Christian Hebraists in Latin with occasional Hebrew, excepting the last work, which is a bilingual edition of R. David Kimhi’s commentary on Psalms. The book opens with a full page engraved copper plate front-piece of Reland, followed by the title page in red and black ink. The full title is comprehendentia libellos quosdam singulares, & alia quae ad lectionem & interpretationem commentariorum rabbinicorum faciunt : in usum Collegii rabbinici : Singula post praefationem indicantur. There is a dedication to Consulibus et Senatui Reipulicae Academiae Curatoribus, an introduction, prolegoma, a listing of the contents, half-title page, and the text of Analecta Rabbinica.
Adrian Reland (Hadrianus Relandus, 1676-1718), a Dutch Christian Hebraist and Orientalist, was the son of Johannes Reland, a Protestant; born at Ryp. He was born near Alkmaar, Holland. He became professor at Harderwyk in 1699, but resigned his appointment in the same year for the chair of Oriental languages at Utrecht. He studied Hebrew and rabbinics at Amsterdam. Reland’s publications, in addition to Analecta Rabbinica were: "Disserlationes Quinque de Nummis Veterum Hebræorum" (ib. 1709); and an introduction to Alting’s Hebrew grammar, together with an edition of the Book of Ruth with a rabbinical commentary (ib. 1710). In his miscellaneous collection of dissertations he dealt with many topics of interest, as the Samaritans, Persian words in the Talmud, etc. His chief works of Jewish interest, however, were his "Antiquitates Sacræ Veterum Hebræorum" (ib. 1708), which went through no less than five editions, and his "Palæstina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata," which was published in 1714 at Utrecht,with eleven maps, and at Nuremberg in 1716. Both these works were for a long time the standard authorities on their respective subjects. Although he never ventured beyond the borders of Netherland, he was also acclaimed as a cartographer. Reland was also acclaimed for his painstaking studies of Islam and linguistic research. He traced the eastward extension of Malay-like languages into the western Pacific. Reland died in 1718 in Utrecht of smallpox.
Analecta Rabbinica is followed by Christoph Cellarius’ (1638-1707) Rabbinismus, Sive Institutio Grammatica Rabbinorum; Joannes, Drusius’ (1550-1616) De Particulis Chaldaicis Thalmudicis et Rabbinicis; and R. David Kimhi (Radak, ca. 1160-ca. 1235 commentary on Psalms, here in two columns, Hebrew and Latin.
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