No More Learning

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.
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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