JONAS ILLUSTRATUS PER PARAPHRASIN CHALDAICAM, MASORUM MAGNAM & PARVAN ET PER TRIUM PRAESTANTISSIMORUM RABBINORUM SCHELOMONIS JARCHI, ABRAHAMI ABEN EZRAE, DAVIDIS KIMHCHI, TEXTUM RABBINICUM PUNCTATUM ET ET PER MICHLAL JOPHI TEXTUM NON PUNCTATUM NEC NON PER VARIAS NOTAS PHILOLOGICAS bound with JOEL EXPLICATUS IN QUO TEXTUS HEBRAEUS PROPHETAE JOEL VARIIS MODIS EXPLICATUR, SEIL ...PER VARIOS NOTAS PHILOLOGICA IN FINE ADJUNCTUS AFT OBADIAS

Utrecht, Netherlands: Gisberti a Zijll & Theodori ab Ackersdijck, 1656. First of this edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Other. Utrecht: Gisberti a Zijll & Theodori ab Ackersdijck, 1656. JONAS ILLUSTRATUS PER PARAPHRASIN CHALDAICAM, MASORUM MAGNAM & PARVAN ET PER TRIUM PRAESTANTISSIMORUM RABBINORUM SCHELOMONIS JARCHI, ABRAHAMI ABEN EZRAE, DAVIDIS KIMHCHI, TEXTUM RABBINICUM PUNCTATUM ET ET PER MICHLAL JOPHI TEXTUM NON PUNCTATUM NEC NON PER VARIAS NOTAS PHILOLOGICAS --- Bound with a second text. Utrecht: Gisberti a Zijll & Theodori ab Ackersdijck, 1657, JOEL EXPLICATUS IN QUO TEXTUS HEBRAEUS PROPHETAE JOEL VARIIS MODIS EXPLICATUR, SEIL ...PER VARIOS NOTAS PHILOLOGICA IN FINE ADJUNCTUS AFT OBADIAS, a final text in Hebrew and Chaldean, of Obadias. Stamped or ink signature at last page, and ink presentation (?) on first flyleaf at end of text. Full vellum, 6 x 3.75 inches. 226 and 283 pages, plus indices, and 112 pages of introductory material (Jonas): "In Prolegomenis haec sequentia continentur (Dissertatio I-VI)". Condition of text is very good. Patina on vellum is brown and spotty. Binding is tight. Several rows of numbers, calculations, in sepia ink on front endpapers.This is an exemplary text from a critical juncture in the long and complex route of Hebrew from oral to written language; and of its central text, The Biblia Hebraica. The compiler, Johannes Leusden, was one of the most prominent Bible experts and philologists of his time. In 1660, together with the Amsterdam rabbi and book printer Joseph Athias, he published the Biblia Hebraica which was the first edition of the Hebrew Bible with numbered verses. Published in 1656 and 1657, these texts of Jonah (Iones) and Joel predate Leusden's publication of the Biblia Hebraica. Leusden based these compilations on the work of a trinity of Masoretes, Hebrew scribe-scholars scholars of the 11th century: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (aka Rashi, c.1075 - c.1105 CE); Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (aka Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089â_x0080__x0093_c.1167); and David Kimchi (or Kimhi,(1160â_x0080__x0093_1235)also known as RaDak. The oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization is the Leningrad Codex dated 1008 CE (or 1009). The Tiberian vocalizatin is the system of dots added to the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible to produce the Masoretic Text. These marks vowels and stress, make fine distinctions of consonant quality and length, and serves as punctuation, providing guidance not only for vocalization of the text, but interpretation. This volume predates the Biblia Hebraica. The 112 page Prolegomena, mentioned above, Dissertations I-VI, lays out working principles and methods which he may also have applied to the 1660 Biblica Hebraica. It is a complex layout, with the Hebrew text 'illustrated' with philological commentary, notes and other explication in Latin. Leusden attributes the work of the three of the great medieval Masoretes, the Hebrew scribe-scholars scholars of the 11th century: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (aka Rashi, c.1075 - c.1105 CE); Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (aka Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089â_x0080__x0093_c.1167); and David Kimchi (Kimhi, or Qimhi 1160â_x0080__x0093_1235)also known as RaDak, who gave the classic account of the accentuation system. Seminal. Rare. See: "The Masoretes and the Punctuation