Dickdook leshon gnebreet. A grammar of the Hebrew tongue : being an essay to bring the Hebrew grammar into English, to facilitate the instruction of all those who are desireous of acquiring a clear idea of this primitive tongue by their own studies : in order to their more distinct acquaintance with the sacred oracles of the Old Testament, according to the original : And published more especially for the use of the students of Harvard-College at Cambridge, in New-England. : [Two lines of Hebrew text]

Alternate Title:

Grammar of the Hebrew tongue

Contributor:

Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757 (dedicatee); Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737 (dedicatee)

Name:

Monis, Judah, 1683-1764; Harvard College (1636-1780)

Date:

1735

Identifier:

2007.01.29.00004; s.nt f.a, z,ds buan (3) 1735(R); (OCoLC)ocm77072584; (OCoLC)770725846029453; (PU)6029453-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English

Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Ruffel, Shattuck (autograph) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Publisher:

Printed by Jonas Green, and are to be sold by the author at his house in Cambridge

Subject:

Hebrew language

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 24 cm (4to)

Related Place:

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

The first Hebrew grammar printed in America.; Three words in Hebrew at head of title.; Title page enclosed in ruled borders; marginal notes, catch words, running title, indexes (i.e. pointing fingers), mortised initials, type ornaments and ornamental bands throughout.; Dedicated to Jonathan Belcher and Benjamin Wadsworth.; "Errata."--verso of title page.; Kaplan Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.; Kaplan copy title page written on, the word "instruction" changed to "destruction."; Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2007.01.29.00004

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, PJ4566 .M7 1735

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)