Lot 1018
1018
HARTMANNUS, J.P. Grammatica Aethiopica, J.H. Maji Hebraica, Chaldaicae, Syriacae atque Samaritanae linguarum institutionibus harmonica. - Bound with: J.H. HAPPELIUS. Brevis institutio Arabicae; (…). Acced. glossarium Arabicum cum reliquis Orientis linguis harmonicum, in IV Geneseos capita priora et tres prarcipuas Alcorani suratas. Frankfurt, J.Ph. Andreae, 1707. 2 in 1 vol. 24; (10), 3-76 (NB ti.-p. = 1-2!) pp. W. fold. table loosely inserted opposite p. 18 in the 2nd part. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Obvious traces of use, a bit loose, but a good copy).
Ad 1: A short grammar of Ethiopic supplementing Majus' one for other languages, printed with the Ludolf types. It gives reading examples from i.a. Genesis 1:1-4, as published by the author's teacher Bürcklin in 1696, whose short grammar is here announced as forthcoming but which was never published. - Fumagalli 1177; Leslau 579. Ad 2: Happelius' work offers next to a concise grammar also a harmonic glossary of Arabic to be used with Bürcklins' publication of Genesis I-IV together with the three Koranic sura's in Arabic. In the preface Hartmann announces Happelius' Arabic grammar as forthcoming. - Schnurrer 87; Lambrecht 812 (incomplete). The owner of this interleaved copy has freely covered many blank and additional pages with grammatical rules, paradigms, and a supplementary glossary, concerning Samaritan, and Arabic, all in a fine minute hand, with hardly any erasure or correction. From a long note on the title-page of the Ethiopic grammar we learn that he was born in the year of publication, 1707, and that he studied at the Bern Academy, in Switzerland, probably around 1730. The annotations may well have been made by a pupil of J.R. Salchin, professor of Hebrew in the Bern university, but that is a claim without evidence.€ 800
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