Plutarchi
Chaeronensis I de utilitate ex hostibus capienda.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
Statius
translated into English verse by Thomas Stephens. 1648.
Stradling, Sir John. Epigrammatum Libri quatuor. 1607.
Thomas, Thomas (and Holland, Philemon). Dictionarium. 1615.
Webbe, George. Pub. Terentius: Andria translated. 1629.
Weston, Elizabeth Jane. Parthenicon Elizabethae Joanpae Westoniae
Virginis nobilissimae, poetriae florentissimae, linguarum plurimarum
peritissimae. Lib. i. ii. iii. Prague, c. 1606. [With a list of learned
women beginning with Deborah and ending with Elizabeth Weston. ]
*
VIII. GREEK LEARNING
Barrow, Isaac. Euclidis Elementorum libri xv breviter demonstrati. Can-
tab. 1655. (Trans, by Barrow into English. 1660. ]
Burton, William. Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or Journies of
the Roman Empire so far as it concerneth Britain. 1658.
Busby, Richard (headmaster of Westminster school). Graecae Grammatices
Rudimenta. c. 1660.
Camden, William. Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendiaria in usum
Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis. 1597. [The standard Greek Gram-
mar for the seventeenth century as Lily's Grammar was for Latin. ]
Casaubon, Isaac. For the works of Casaubon, see list in Mark Pattison's
Life of Casaubon, 1892, pp. 475 ff. See, also, Landor, W. S. , Imaginary
Conversations.
Casaubon, Meric. Marci Antonini Imperatoris de Seipso et ad Seipsum libri
XII. . . ; nunc Xylandri versionem locis plurimis emendavit, et novam fecit;
in Antonini libros Notas et Emendationes adjecit Mericus Casaubonus
Is. F. . . . 1632.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Roman Emperour his Meditations
concerning Himself [in English). 1634.
De Verborum usu et accuratae eorum Cognitionis Utilitate Diatriba.
1647.
De quatuor Linguis Commentationis Pars prior quae, de Lingua
Hebraica : et de Lingua Saxonica. 1650. [C. did not finish the Lat. and
Greek. ]
Lions
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Casaubon, Meric. Cebetis Tabula . . . Gr. et Lat. cum . . . notis M. C. cum
Epicteto. Cantab. 1659.
Notae et Emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani episcopum de
Schismate Donatistarum. 1631.
De nupera Homeri Editione Lugduno-Batavica Hackiana, cum latina
versione et Didymi Scholiis; sed et Eustathio, et locis aliquot insignioribus
ad Odysseam pertinentibus etc. 1659.
Chilmead, Edmund. De Musica antiquâ Graecâ. [At end of Oxford ed. of
Aratus, edited by Fell, J. , bishop of Oxford, 1672. ]
Cogan, Thomas. The History of the World by Diodorus Siculus, done into
English. 1653.
Donne, John. The auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke
by Aristeus 1900 years since. . . . Concerning the first translation of the
holy Bible by the 72 Interpreters. . . . 1633.
Downes, Andrew. Eratosthenes, hoc est, brevis et luculenta Defensio Lysiae
pro caede Eratosthenis, praelectionibus illustrata. Camb. 1593.
Notes in Sir Henry Savile's edition of St Chrysostom, vol. VIII. (1613. )
Praelectiones in Philippicam de Pace Demosthenis. 1621.
Letters in Greek to Casaubon. (Epistolae. )
Greek verses on death of Dr Whittaker (St John's Coll. ).
Greek and Latin verses on death of Prince Henry. 1612.
Duport, James (regius professor of Greek, Cambridge). Oprvobplay. Bos, sive
Liber Job, Graeco carmine redditus autore J[acobo] D[uport]. Cantab.
1637.
Aaßions 'Euperpos, sive metaphrasis libri Psalmorum. 1666.
Sodouwv 'Empetpos, sive tres libri Solomonis scilicet, Proverbia, Ecclesi-
astes, Cantica, Graeco carmine donati per J. D. 1646.
Homeri Poetarum omnium saeculorum facile Principis Gnomologia,
duplici Parallelismo illustrata: Uno ex locis S. Scripturae, quibus
Gnomae Homericae aut probe affines, aut non prorsus absimiles. Altero
ex Gentium Scriptoribus; ubi Citationes, Parodiae, Allusiones et denique
loci Paralleli, etc. Cantab. 1660.
Βιβλος της Δημοσιας Εύχης. 1665. [The Book of Common Prayer in
ancient Greek. ]
Everard, Dr John. Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus translated
into English. 1650.
Farnaby, Thomas. Tabulae Graecae Linguae. [? date. ]
Gataker, Thomas. Marci Antonini Imperatoris de rebus suis, sive de eis
quae ad se pertinere censebat, Libri xii, Locis haud paucis repurgati,
suppleti, restituti : Versione insuper Latina nora; Lectionibus item variis,
Locisque parallelis, ad marginem adjectis; Ac Commentario perpetuo,
explicati atque illustrati. . . . Cantab. 1652. [For other contributions to
classical learning by Gataker, see his Cinnus, sive Adversaria Miscellanea,
1651, and his Posthuma, 1659. ]
Greaves, John, and Foster, Samuel. Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos et
Latinos iam pridem desiderata, e vetusto codice manuscripto Arabico a
J. G. traducta, et cum Arabum scholiis publicata, edidit et suis animad-
versionibus illustravit S. F. 1659. (For editions of other writings on
Greek mathematicians by Englishmen of the period, see Wallis, John,
Opera mathematica, vol. 111, Oxon. 1699-93. ]
Grimeston, Edward. The History of Polybius translated into English by
E. G. 1634.
H. , S. The Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated into English. 1610.
Hall, John (of Gray's Inn). Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of
Pythagoras. . . Englished by J. H. , etc. 1657.
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489
Healey, John. Epictetus his Manuall and Cebes his Table. Out of the
Greek originall. 1610.
Hodges, Anthony. Achilles Tatius. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe
Englished by A. H. Oxon. 1638.
Langbaine, Gerard. Dionysii Longini Rhetoris de grandi Loquentia (trans-
lated into Latin with notes by G. L. ]. 1636. (Longinus on the Sublime
was trans, into English by Hall, John, in 1652. ]
Price, John. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros. . . Annotationes
in Psalmorum librum etc. 1660. (A learned work in its grasp of Greek
and especially in its illustrative passages from church doctors as well
as from classical sources. ]
Rainolds, John.
Plutarchi Chaeronensis I de utilitate ex hostibus capienda.
II de morbis animi et corporis. D. Johanne Rainoldo Interprete. Oxon.
1614.
Selden, John. Marmora Arundelliana, sive Saxa graece incisa, ex vener-
andis priscae Orientis gloriae ruderibus, auspiciis et impensis Ill. Thomae,
Comitis Arundelliae etc. vindicata et in aedibus eius hortisque disposita.
Accedunt Inscriptiones aliquot veteris Latii, ex eiusdem vetustatis
Thesauro selectae. Publicavit et Commentariolos adjecit Joh. Seldenus.
Londini, 1628. [Selden was assisted by James, Richard, and Young,
Patrick. ]
Shirley, James (dramatist-schoolmaster). Eloaywyń, sive Introductorium
Anglo-Latino-Graecum. Complectens Colloquia familiaria, Aesopi Fabu-
las, et Luciani Selectiores Mortuorum Dialogos. In usum scholarum.
1656. [The dialogaes of Lucian occupy 64 pp. The book is a Greek
reading-book; there is no grammar. ]
Stanley, Thomas. Anacreon, Bion, Moschus; Kisses by Secundus; Cupid
crucified by Ausonius: Venus Vigills translated into English with
Notes. 1651.
Stapylton, C. B. Herodian's Imperial History converted into an Heroic
Poem. 1652.
Stapylton, Sir Robert Musaeus on the Loves of Hero and Leander (with
annotations by Sir R. S. ]. 1647.
Stubbe, Henry. Otium Literarum. Sive Miscellanea quaedam Poemata.
Oxon. 1656. (Includes Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum
translatae, 1656 and 1658. ] [Stubbe translated into Greek from
Randolph and Crashaw in Horae Subsecivae, 1651. ]
Thornley, George. Longus : Amours of Daphnis and Chloe translated into
English. 1657.
Ussher, James. De Graeca Septuaginta, Interpretum Versione Syntagma:
cum Libri Estherae editione Origenicâ, & vetere Graecå alterâ, ex
Arundelliana Bibliotheca nunc primum in lucem producta, etc. 1655.
Wallis, John (Savilian professor of Geometry at Oxford). Claudii Ptolemaei
harmonicorum libri tres. Ex codd. MSS undecim, nunc primum graece
editi. J. Wallis . . . recensuit, edidit, versione et notis illustravit et
auctarium adjecit. Oxon. 1682. [First Greek text of the work (with
Latin translation) and contains an account of Greek music, also a
collection of passages from ancient authors bearing on musical theory,
some from MSS copies. A work of considerable research and scholarship. ]
Wase, Christopher. Electra, translated from the Greek of Sophocles. 1649.
Winterton, Ralph. Poetae Minores Graeci. Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus,
Bion Smyrn. , Simmias Rhod. , Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagoras,
Solon, Tyrtaeus, Simonides, Rhianus, Linus, Callimachus, Evenus Par. ,
Eratosthenes, Menecrates, Posidippus, Metrodorus, Fragmenta quaedam
Philemonis, etc. Cantab. 1635.
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and sense.
IX. HEBREW
Ainsworth, Henry. Annotations on the Pentateuch. 1607.
The Book of Psalms: Englished both in prose and metre (with annota-
tions]. 1612.
Bythner, Victorinus. Lyra prophetica Davidis Regis, sive Analysis Critico
practica Psalmorum. (A grammatical account of every word in the
Hebrew Psalter. ] 1650.
Gataker, Thomas. Critica Opera (published 1698). [Include translations
from the Hebrew of parts of Old Testament. ]
Leigh, Edward. Critica sacra, on the Hebrew Words of the old and on the
Greek of the New Testament. 1639 and 1646. Supplement. 1662.
Lightfoot, John. Opera omnia. 2 vols. Rotterdam, 1686.
Erubhin:
: or Miscellanies, Christian and Judaicall, etc. 1629.
Harmony, Chronicles and Order of the Old Testament. 1647.
Harmony of the New Testament. Illustrated with variety of observations
upon difficulties Textual and Talmudical. 1655.
Harmony of the four Evangelists among themselves and with the Old
Testament, with an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in language
Part 1, 1644. Part 11, 1647. Part 1, 1650.
Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae. Leipzig, 1675. [Published as a whole.
Probably the greatest Hebrew work of the period. ]
Mede, Joseph. Works. Ed. Worthington, John. 1664-63. [*Abound' in
Hebrew learning. ]
Robertson, William. A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue opened in English.
1653.
The Second Gate or the Inner Door. 1655.
Key to the Hebrew Bible. 1656.
Rowley, Alexander. The Scholer's Companion; or all the Words in the
Greek and Hebrew Bible interpreted. 1648.
Spencer, John. Dissertatio de Urim et Thummim. Camb. 1669. [Pioneer in
tracing the relations between Hebrew rites and those practised by ancient
Egyptians. ]
In his De Legibus Hebraeorum, Ritualibus et earum Rationibus
(Camb. 1685) which incorporates the above book, it has been claimed that
Spencer 'laid the foundations of the science of comparative religion. '
Taylor, Francis. Opuscula Rabbinica. 1654.
Targum Prius et Posterius in Esteram. 1655.
Tractatus de Patribus: Rabbi Nathane authore. [Translated into Latin,
with marginal notes. ] 1654.
Welton, D. M. John Lightfoot. 1878. [With bibliography of Hebrew
grammars and lexicons. ]
X. ORIENTAL INVESTIGATION AND SCHOLARSHIP
Scholarship in this period in oriental subjects was brought to a centre
in the great Biblia Sacra Polyglotta of Brian Walton, see under Bible
and Biblical Scholarship, ante, p. 480. For list of English oriental scholars,
contributing to that work, see p. 481.
Bedwell, William. Made vast collections for an Arabic Lexicon in Camb.
Univ. MSS. These were lent to Castell for the Arabic portion of his
Polyglot Lexicon.
Beveridge, Wm. Excellency and Use of the Oriental Languages, especially
Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Samaritan together with a Grammar of the
Syriac Language. 1658.
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:
Castell, Edmund. Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum,
Samaritanum, Æthiopicum, Arabicum, conjunctim: et Persicum, separ-
atim. 1669. [The assiduous labour' of 17 years. ]
Pococke, Edward (first lecturer on Arabic in univ. of Oxford). Specimen
Historiae Arabum. 1650. [Based on researches in over 100 Arabic
MSS. ]
Porta Mosis. [Six prefatory discourses of Maimonides on the Mishnaioth,
with Latin translation and notes, Arabic printed in Hebrew characters. ]
Oxon. 1655.
Contextio Gemmarum. [Annals of Eutychius. ] Arab. and Lat. 1655 ff.
Ravis, C. General Grammar for the Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac,
Arabic and Ethiopic Tongues. 1649.
And other books published abroad.
In the Thomason Collection (Brit. Mus. library) is a printed circular
asking for notice to be given in public the next Lord's Day that Ravis
would begin a course of lectures on the oriental tongues the following
Thursday week at London House [26 August 1647].
CHAPTER XIV
ENGLISH GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
Adamson, J. W. Pioneers of Modern Education, 1600-1700. Cambridge,
1905.
Baker, Thos. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Edited by Professor J. E. B. Mayor. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1869. [Con-
tains an invaluable collection of notes both biographical and historical
relating to the state of education and learning in the 17th and 18th
centuries. ]
Brinsley, John. Ludus Literarius: or the Grammar Schoole; shewing how
to proceede from the first entrance into learning to the highest perfection
required in the Grammar Schooles. 1612 and 1627.
A consolation for our Grammar Schooles: or a faithfull incouragement
for laying of a sure foundation of all good learninge in our Schooles.
1622.
translated into English verse by Thomas Stephens. 1648.
Stradling, Sir John. Epigrammatum Libri quatuor. 1607.
Thomas, Thomas (and Holland, Philemon). Dictionarium. 1615.
Webbe, George. Pub. Terentius: Andria translated. 1629.
Weston, Elizabeth Jane. Parthenicon Elizabethae Joanpae Westoniae
Virginis nobilissimae, poetriae florentissimae, linguarum plurimarum
peritissimae. Lib. i. ii. iii. Prague, c. 1606. [With a list of learned
women beginning with Deborah and ending with Elizabeth Weston. ]
*
VIII. GREEK LEARNING
Barrow, Isaac. Euclidis Elementorum libri xv breviter demonstrati. Can-
tab. 1655. (Trans, by Barrow into English. 1660. ]
Burton, William. Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or Journies of
the Roman Empire so far as it concerneth Britain. 1658.
Busby, Richard (headmaster of Westminster school). Graecae Grammatices
Rudimenta. c. 1660.
Camden, William. Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendiaria in usum
Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis. 1597. [The standard Greek Gram-
mar for the seventeenth century as Lily's Grammar was for Latin. ]
Casaubon, Isaac. For the works of Casaubon, see list in Mark Pattison's
Life of Casaubon, 1892, pp. 475 ff. See, also, Landor, W. S. , Imaginary
Conversations.
Casaubon, Meric. Marci Antonini Imperatoris de Seipso et ad Seipsum libri
XII. . . ; nunc Xylandri versionem locis plurimis emendavit, et novam fecit;
in Antonini libros Notas et Emendationes adjecit Mericus Casaubonus
Is. F. . . . 1632.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Roman Emperour his Meditations
concerning Himself [in English). 1634.
De Verborum usu et accuratae eorum Cognitionis Utilitate Diatriba.
1647.
De quatuor Linguis Commentationis Pars prior quae, de Lingua
Hebraica : et de Lingua Saxonica. 1650. [C. did not finish the Lat. and
Greek. ]
Lions
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488
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Casaubon, Meric. Cebetis Tabula . . . Gr. et Lat. cum . . . notis M. C. cum
Epicteto. Cantab. 1659.
Notae et Emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani episcopum de
Schismate Donatistarum. 1631.
De nupera Homeri Editione Lugduno-Batavica Hackiana, cum latina
versione et Didymi Scholiis; sed et Eustathio, et locis aliquot insignioribus
ad Odysseam pertinentibus etc. 1659.
Chilmead, Edmund. De Musica antiquâ Graecâ. [At end of Oxford ed. of
Aratus, edited by Fell, J. , bishop of Oxford, 1672. ]
Cogan, Thomas. The History of the World by Diodorus Siculus, done into
English. 1653.
Donne, John. The auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke
by Aristeus 1900 years since. . . . Concerning the first translation of the
holy Bible by the 72 Interpreters. . . . 1633.
Downes, Andrew. Eratosthenes, hoc est, brevis et luculenta Defensio Lysiae
pro caede Eratosthenis, praelectionibus illustrata. Camb. 1593.
Notes in Sir Henry Savile's edition of St Chrysostom, vol. VIII. (1613. )
Praelectiones in Philippicam de Pace Demosthenis. 1621.
Letters in Greek to Casaubon. (Epistolae. )
Greek verses on death of Dr Whittaker (St John's Coll. ).
Greek and Latin verses on death of Prince Henry. 1612.
Duport, James (regius professor of Greek, Cambridge). Oprvobplay. Bos, sive
Liber Job, Graeco carmine redditus autore J[acobo] D[uport]. Cantab.
1637.
Aaßions 'Euperpos, sive metaphrasis libri Psalmorum. 1666.
Sodouwv 'Empetpos, sive tres libri Solomonis scilicet, Proverbia, Ecclesi-
astes, Cantica, Graeco carmine donati per J. D. 1646.
Homeri Poetarum omnium saeculorum facile Principis Gnomologia,
duplici Parallelismo illustrata: Uno ex locis S. Scripturae, quibus
Gnomae Homericae aut probe affines, aut non prorsus absimiles. Altero
ex Gentium Scriptoribus; ubi Citationes, Parodiae, Allusiones et denique
loci Paralleli, etc. Cantab. 1660.
Βιβλος της Δημοσιας Εύχης. 1665. [The Book of Common Prayer in
ancient Greek. ]
Everard, Dr John. Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus translated
into English. 1650.
Farnaby, Thomas. Tabulae Graecae Linguae. [? date. ]
Gataker, Thomas. Marci Antonini Imperatoris de rebus suis, sive de eis
quae ad se pertinere censebat, Libri xii, Locis haud paucis repurgati,
suppleti, restituti : Versione insuper Latina nora; Lectionibus item variis,
Locisque parallelis, ad marginem adjectis; Ac Commentario perpetuo,
explicati atque illustrati. . . . Cantab. 1652. [For other contributions to
classical learning by Gataker, see his Cinnus, sive Adversaria Miscellanea,
1651, and his Posthuma, 1659. ]
Greaves, John, and Foster, Samuel. Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos et
Latinos iam pridem desiderata, e vetusto codice manuscripto Arabico a
J. G. traducta, et cum Arabum scholiis publicata, edidit et suis animad-
versionibus illustravit S. F. 1659. (For editions of other writings on
Greek mathematicians by Englishmen of the period, see Wallis, John,
Opera mathematica, vol. 111, Oxon. 1699-93. ]
Grimeston, Edward. The History of Polybius translated into English by
E. G. 1634.
H. , S. The Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated into English. 1610.
Hall, John (of Gray's Inn). Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of
Pythagoras. . . Englished by J. H. , etc. 1657.
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489
Healey, John. Epictetus his Manuall and Cebes his Table. Out of the
Greek originall. 1610.
Hodges, Anthony. Achilles Tatius. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe
Englished by A. H. Oxon. 1638.
Langbaine, Gerard. Dionysii Longini Rhetoris de grandi Loquentia (trans-
lated into Latin with notes by G. L. ]. 1636. (Longinus on the Sublime
was trans, into English by Hall, John, in 1652. ]
Price, John. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros. . . Annotationes
in Psalmorum librum etc. 1660. (A learned work in its grasp of Greek
and especially in its illustrative passages from church doctors as well
as from classical sources. ]
Rainolds, John.
Plutarchi Chaeronensis I de utilitate ex hostibus capienda.
II de morbis animi et corporis. D. Johanne Rainoldo Interprete. Oxon.
1614.
Selden, John. Marmora Arundelliana, sive Saxa graece incisa, ex vener-
andis priscae Orientis gloriae ruderibus, auspiciis et impensis Ill. Thomae,
Comitis Arundelliae etc. vindicata et in aedibus eius hortisque disposita.
Accedunt Inscriptiones aliquot veteris Latii, ex eiusdem vetustatis
Thesauro selectae. Publicavit et Commentariolos adjecit Joh. Seldenus.
Londini, 1628. [Selden was assisted by James, Richard, and Young,
Patrick. ]
Shirley, James (dramatist-schoolmaster). Eloaywyń, sive Introductorium
Anglo-Latino-Graecum. Complectens Colloquia familiaria, Aesopi Fabu-
las, et Luciani Selectiores Mortuorum Dialogos. In usum scholarum.
1656. [The dialogaes of Lucian occupy 64 pp. The book is a Greek
reading-book; there is no grammar. ]
Stanley, Thomas. Anacreon, Bion, Moschus; Kisses by Secundus; Cupid
crucified by Ausonius: Venus Vigills translated into English with
Notes. 1651.
Stapylton, C. B. Herodian's Imperial History converted into an Heroic
Poem. 1652.
Stapylton, Sir Robert Musaeus on the Loves of Hero and Leander (with
annotations by Sir R. S. ]. 1647.
Stubbe, Henry. Otium Literarum. Sive Miscellanea quaedam Poemata.
Oxon. 1656. (Includes Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum
translatae, 1656 and 1658. ] [Stubbe translated into Greek from
Randolph and Crashaw in Horae Subsecivae, 1651. ]
Thornley, George. Longus : Amours of Daphnis and Chloe translated into
English. 1657.
Ussher, James. De Graeca Septuaginta, Interpretum Versione Syntagma:
cum Libri Estherae editione Origenicâ, & vetere Graecå alterâ, ex
Arundelliana Bibliotheca nunc primum in lucem producta, etc. 1655.
Wallis, John (Savilian professor of Geometry at Oxford). Claudii Ptolemaei
harmonicorum libri tres. Ex codd. MSS undecim, nunc primum graece
editi. J. Wallis . . . recensuit, edidit, versione et notis illustravit et
auctarium adjecit. Oxon. 1682. [First Greek text of the work (with
Latin translation) and contains an account of Greek music, also a
collection of passages from ancient authors bearing on musical theory,
some from MSS copies. A work of considerable research and scholarship. ]
Wase, Christopher. Electra, translated from the Greek of Sophocles. 1649.
Winterton, Ralph. Poetae Minores Graeci. Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus,
Bion Smyrn. , Simmias Rhod. , Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagoras,
Solon, Tyrtaeus, Simonides, Rhianus, Linus, Callimachus, Evenus Par. ,
Eratosthenes, Menecrates, Posidippus, Metrodorus, Fragmenta quaedam
Philemonis, etc. Cantab. 1635.
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490
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and sense.
IX. HEBREW
Ainsworth, Henry. Annotations on the Pentateuch. 1607.
The Book of Psalms: Englished both in prose and metre (with annota-
tions]. 1612.
Bythner, Victorinus. Lyra prophetica Davidis Regis, sive Analysis Critico
practica Psalmorum. (A grammatical account of every word in the
Hebrew Psalter. ] 1650.
Gataker, Thomas. Critica Opera (published 1698). [Include translations
from the Hebrew of parts of Old Testament. ]
Leigh, Edward. Critica sacra, on the Hebrew Words of the old and on the
Greek of the New Testament. 1639 and 1646. Supplement. 1662.
Lightfoot, John. Opera omnia. 2 vols. Rotterdam, 1686.
Erubhin:
: or Miscellanies, Christian and Judaicall, etc. 1629.
Harmony, Chronicles and Order of the Old Testament. 1647.
Harmony of the New Testament. Illustrated with variety of observations
upon difficulties Textual and Talmudical. 1655.
Harmony of the four Evangelists among themselves and with the Old
Testament, with an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in language
Part 1, 1644. Part 11, 1647. Part 1, 1650.
Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae. Leipzig, 1675. [Published as a whole.
Probably the greatest Hebrew work of the period. ]
Mede, Joseph. Works. Ed. Worthington, John. 1664-63. [*Abound' in
Hebrew learning. ]
Robertson, William. A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue opened in English.
1653.
The Second Gate or the Inner Door. 1655.
Key to the Hebrew Bible. 1656.
Rowley, Alexander. The Scholer's Companion; or all the Words in the
Greek and Hebrew Bible interpreted. 1648.
Spencer, John. Dissertatio de Urim et Thummim. Camb. 1669. [Pioneer in
tracing the relations between Hebrew rites and those practised by ancient
Egyptians. ]
In his De Legibus Hebraeorum, Ritualibus et earum Rationibus
(Camb. 1685) which incorporates the above book, it has been claimed that
Spencer 'laid the foundations of the science of comparative religion. '
Taylor, Francis. Opuscula Rabbinica. 1654.
Targum Prius et Posterius in Esteram. 1655.
Tractatus de Patribus: Rabbi Nathane authore. [Translated into Latin,
with marginal notes. ] 1654.
Welton, D. M. John Lightfoot. 1878. [With bibliography of Hebrew
grammars and lexicons. ]
X. ORIENTAL INVESTIGATION AND SCHOLARSHIP
Scholarship in this period in oriental subjects was brought to a centre
in the great Biblia Sacra Polyglotta of Brian Walton, see under Bible
and Biblical Scholarship, ante, p. 480. For list of English oriental scholars,
contributing to that work, see p. 481.
Bedwell, William. Made vast collections for an Arabic Lexicon in Camb.
Univ. MSS. These were lent to Castell for the Arabic portion of his
Polyglot Lexicon.
Beveridge, Wm. Excellency and Use of the Oriental Languages, especially
Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Samaritan together with a Grammar of the
Syriac Language. 1658.
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Castell, Edmund. Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum,
Samaritanum, Æthiopicum, Arabicum, conjunctim: et Persicum, separ-
atim. 1669. [The assiduous labour' of 17 years. ]
Pococke, Edward (first lecturer on Arabic in univ. of Oxford). Specimen
Historiae Arabum. 1650. [Based on researches in over 100 Arabic
MSS. ]
Porta Mosis. [Six prefatory discourses of Maimonides on the Mishnaioth,
with Latin translation and notes, Arabic printed in Hebrew characters. ]
Oxon. 1655.
Contextio Gemmarum. [Annals of Eutychius. ] Arab. and Lat. 1655 ff.
Ravis, C. General Grammar for the Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac,
Arabic and Ethiopic Tongues. 1649.
And other books published abroad.
In the Thomason Collection (Brit. Mus. library) is a printed circular
asking for notice to be given in public the next Lord's Day that Ravis
would begin a course of lectures on the oriental tongues the following
Thursday week at London House [26 August 1647].
CHAPTER XIV
ENGLISH GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
Adamson, J. W. Pioneers of Modern Education, 1600-1700. Cambridge,
1905.
Baker, Thos. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Edited by Professor J. E. B. Mayor. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1869. [Con-
tains an invaluable collection of notes both biographical and historical
relating to the state of education and learning in the 17th and 18th
centuries. ]
Brinsley, John. Ludus Literarius: or the Grammar Schoole; shewing how
to proceede from the first entrance into learning to the highest perfection
required in the Grammar Schooles. 1612 and 1627.
A consolation for our Grammar Schooles: or a faithfull incouragement
for laying of a sure foundation of all good learninge in our Schooles.
1622.
