12 mo. Volume I: Fundamenta punctationis linguae sanctae...Synopsis Institutionum Chaldaerum et Syrarum. Edito Sexta Simili Institutionum Samaritanarum, Rabbinicarum, Arabicarum, Aethiopicarum et Persica Rum Synopsi, Georgio Othone: [14], 385 pp., +[109 Index], / Volume II: Altingi Synopsis Institutionum Chaldaearum et Syracum: [2], 122 pp., [2 Errata], / Volume III: Synopsis institutionum Samaritanarum, Rabbinicarum, Arabicarum, Persicarum: [14], 32 + 32 / Volume IV: Synopsis Institutionum Arabicarum :276 pp. + [6 errata], contemporary calf with clasps, some wormholes on margin, scattered foxing, Frideric Knochius, Frankfurt, 1701.

Synopsis

A collection of Semitic grammars, consisting of Alting’s Hebrew grammar with a supplement on Aramaic / Syriac grammar. Also including Georgio Othone’s complementary synopsis of Samaritan, Rabbinic Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic and Persian, here published for the first time.
” The two authors, Atling (1618-1679) and Georg Otho (1634-1713), were respectively a Dutch philologist, theologian, and professor at the University of Groningen; and a German librarian and professor of oriental languages. The volume has divisional title-pages for “Jacobi Altingi Synopsis institutionum Chaldaearum et Syrarcum” dated 1747; and “Georgii Othonis … Synopsis institutionum Samaritanarum, Rabbinicarum, Arabicarum, Aethiopicarum et Persicarum,” dated 1735.