D. (E.) [DOWSON (Emerson)]:

The Youth's Spelling, Pronouncing, and Explanatory Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, in which all the words of the Four Leading Parts of Speech Are arranged.... To which is added, An Essay, by Way of Introduction on the Several Parts of Speech, and A Correct Alphabetical Ender.

London: Printed and Published for the Author, By W. Booth, Duke Street, Mamnchester. Sq..., 1818. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 194 x 110, pp. [II], xxxvi. 409 [410 blank, 411 - 412 adverts], entirely uncut, pebbled green cloth spine boards (a little soiled); front hinge cracked, corners work. With a calligraphic presentation leaf tipped in after the title, inscribed on the recto, "To the Honble Douglas Kinnaird/ Presented by the Author/ As a grateful acknowledgement of the/ kind attention received on a late occasion/ and with best wishes that he may make/ the word of God his guide. whatever/ important Station he may be called/ uponj to fill in the councils of the / Nation." Eusebius of Caesarea (c. a.d. 326) is said to have compiled the first Bible dictionary. The first book to be published in England that might be classified as a Bible dictionary was a volume of 200 pages, published in London by William Patten in 1575. A histoyhr of the numerous similar dictionaries subsequently published would probably take up several volume OCLC locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Manchester, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow,

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SCHINDLER (Valentin):

Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum. In Qvo Omnes Voces Hebraeae, Chaldaeae, Syrae, Rabbinicae & Arabicae, adjectis hincinde Persicis, Aethiopicis & Turcicis, ordine Alphabetico, sub suis singulae Radicibus degest[a]e continentur ... ; Variorvm Item, Interpretvm Difficiles, ac discrepantes sententiae conferuntur, & examinantur; Cum triplici Indice: 1. Abbreviaturarum Hebraearum copiosissimo. 2. Nominum propriorum hoc Lexico citatorum. 3. Omnium vocum Latinarum, quibus dicta Idiomata explicantur, locupletisimo....

Hanoviae. Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennei, 1612. Large folio, 327 x 207 mms., pp. [xvi], 1992 columns, pp. [152], attractively bound in 19th full panelled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, black leather label; some slight wear to binding, but a very good to fine copy of this major work on semitic languages. Schindler (1543 - 1604), a professor of Hebrew and oriental languages was said to have worked for decades on this dictionary, which translates Hebrew and four other semitic languages into Latin. In his Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660) (2012), Stephen G. Burnett takes account of the comparative similarity of Hebrew and other semitic languages, and the study of them in the early 17th century. Referring to Schindler's "massive" work as "particularly important because it was the first attempt to produce a universal Semitic reference dictionary that provided information on biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic Hebrew, targumic and Talmudic Aramaic and even Arabic." In his 2013 study of Arabic and Semitic Languages, Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century, Jan Loop amusingly remarks that "In the long run, the study of oriental languages had consequences which proved fatal for the divine status of Hebrew. By referring to the cornucopia of words, letters, and nations involved in this rich language, Valentin Schindler is reported to have championed the opinion - privately, to be sure - that Arabic was older than Hebrew."

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YORKSHIRE DIALECT. BARON (Joseph):

T'Yorksher Lingo A Dickshonary ov Gooid Owd Tykes' Words.

London Milner & Co..., no date [1900 - 1920[. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 186 x 123 mms., pp. [iii - vii]. viii - x [9] 10 - 83 [84 blank], original cloth; title-page very browned, spine chipped at base, with the non-authorial presentation inscription on the front paste-down end-paper from 1930: "From [?Prudence] / With compliments / 17/11/30". Joseph Baron (1859 - 1924) is probably the Blackburn-based poet of that name who often wrote in Lancashire dialect, though he writes in Yorkshire dialect here; he is identified as the author of Ribble-land; its Scenery, History, and Legendary Life; James Sharples, Blacksmith and Artist and other books on the title-page. If I'm reading George Hull correctly, in his anthology The Poets and Poetry of Blackburn (1902), Hull refers to a serialized version of Baron's T'Yorksher Lingo, though not by title, in the closing sentence of this paragraph: "Among the most popular of his published works is his "Blegburn Dickshonary," which, in its enlarged form, has now obtained a wider fame as the "Lankisher Dickshonary." Under the former title it was written for and originally published in the "Blackburn Times" over twelve years ago; and under the latter, after its enlargement, it appeared in the "Liverpool Weekly Post," the "Manchester Weekly Courier," and ten other Lancashire weeklies. Still later the "Dickshonary" was published in book form. It evoked a commendatory letter from Mr. Gladstone, together with many favourable press notices, and went out of print within two months. Then came a new edition, with further additions; and this is now well into its second 50,000. The work has also been adapted to the Yorkshire dialect, the words peculiar to Lancashire being omitted; and in this form it has appeared with great success in the columns of the "Yorkshire Post."" Uncommon. Copac locates copies in Leeds University Library and York Minster Library and the National Trust (2). WorldCat lists a copy at Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan.

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