No More Learning

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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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.
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upon difficulties Textual and Talmudical. 1655.
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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.
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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,
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Baker, Thos. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Edited by Professor J. E. B. Mayor. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1869. [Con-
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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.
Carlisle, N. A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in
England and Wales. 2 vols. 1818.
Churton, Ralph. Life of Alex. Nowell, Dean of St Paul's. Oxford, 1809.
Conybeare, John. Schoolmaster at Molton, Devon, 1580, and at Swimbridge,
1594. Letters and Exercises of. Ed. Conybeare, F. C.
Counties, Victoria Histories of, now approaching completion.
Gasquet, F. A. Henry VIII and the English Monasteries. 1899.
The Canterbury Claustral School. Old English Bible, etc. (ed. 1908),
pp. 225-6.
Hacket, John. Sorinia reserata: a memorial . . . of John Williams, D. D.
1693.
Hallam, H. Literature of Europe, vol. 11, chap. I. 1864.
Hearne, T. Reliquiae Hearnianae. Collected with notes by Bliss, P. 2 vols.
1857.
Kerr, J.
Scottish Education School and University from Early Times to
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McDonnell, Michael F. J. History of St Paul's School. 1909.
Mulcaster, R. Positions wherein those primitive Circumstances be examined,
which are necessarie for the training up of Children, either for skill in
their Booke, or Health in their Bodie. 1581. Ed. Quick, R. H. 1888.
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