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Romae : Typis S. C. de Propag. fide, 1653
Abstract/Sommario: Romae, Typis S.C. de Propaganda Fide, 1653. 29, (1 blank), 270, (30 index chaldaicus scriptorum; index latinus scriptorum) pp. Modern half leatherette with marbled boards. Small 8vo 12x17 cm. Pages are bound in reverse (syriac) order from right to left; Syriac and Latin on opposite pages. Abraham Ecchelensis a learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome. He studied at the Maronite College in Rome, published a Sy ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Romae, Typis S.C. de Propaganda Fide, 1653. 29, (1 blank), 270, (30 index chaldaicus scriptorum; index latinus scriptorum) pp. Modern half leatherette with marbled boards. Small 8vo 12x17 cm. Pages are bound in reverse (syriac) order from right to left; Syriac and Latin on opposite pages. Abraham Ecchelensis a learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome. He studied at the Maronite College in Rome, published a Syriac grammar (1628), and taught Syriac and Arabic at the College of the Propaganda. In 1630 he began to teach the same languages in the Royal College Paris, and to assist in editing Le Jay's "Polyglot Bible", working with Gabriel Sionita on the Syriac and Arabic texts and their Latin translation. Among his many works we may mention: a "Synopsis of Arab Philosophy" (Paris, 1641); "Chronicon Orientale nunc primum Latinitate donatum, cui Accessit Supplementum Historiae orientalis (Paris, 1653); The work we offer here is a latin translation of a work on judaica, sacred and profane Hebrew literature, by Abdisho Bar Berika, metropolitan of Soba