Philologia Sacra, qua totes ss. veteris et Novi Testamenti scrittura tum stylus et literatura, tum sensus et genuina interpretations ratio et doctrina libris quinque expenditur ac traitor; qui absoluuntur philologia...
Lipsiae: Jo. Fridrici Gleditschii B. Filium, 1725. Very Good. Item #25505
Lipsiae: Jo. Friderici Gleiditschii B. Filium, 1725. Edition Novissima. Thick quarto (25cm.); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine title, all edges stained red; [4],31,[17]pp. & 2138 columns & [104]pp. (a2 [but a3] b-h4 A-7I4, a2 repeated, collated complete); engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black. Upper cover fore-edge quite heavily discolored, additional darkening along extremities, first few leaves worn at extremities, extensive later (1790) manuscript notes on front pastedown, as well as discreet 20th century ownership rubberstamp; overall Very Good, internally sound.
Substantial work of biblical scholarship divided into five sections, the latter three devoted to the grammar and rhetoric of biblical Hebrew. Reprinted in the lifetime of the German author Salomon Glass (1593-1656), the 18th century editions such as this one were published under the editorship of the German Lutheran theologian Johann Franz Buddeus (1666-1729).
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