Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
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other) tongue, together with the ground and foundation of Arts<br />
and Sciences, comprised under an hundred Titles, and a thousand<br />
periods... Johan Anchoran. London, George Miller, for Michael<br />
Sparkes and Thomas Slater, 1631. £7000<br />
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 226, [4], pages 66, 93, and 117 misnumbered 96, 63<br />
and 107; decorated <strong>in</strong>itials and head-and tail-pieces; lightly browned<br />
throughout, title dust-soiled, small hole to gutter marg<strong>in</strong>, oVsett<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and slight discolour<strong>in</strong>g to gutter marg<strong>in</strong> of Wrst title; contemporary full<br />
sheep, rebacked and recornered; with small oval circular stamp of the<br />
private library of Marcel Bekus (- 1938) to front paste-down and verso<br />
of second title page.<br />
First Western languages edition, very rare, of Comenius’ <strong>in</strong>novative and<br />
revolutionary Janua L<strong>in</strong>guarum Reserata, his Wrst school book, a guide to<br />
learn<strong>in</strong>g languages as well as teach<strong>in</strong>g the basics of all arts and sciences.<br />
It had Wrst been published <strong>in</strong> Lat<strong>in</strong> and Czech <strong>in</strong> the same year. This Wrst<br />
Western languages edition teaches Lat<strong>in</strong>, French and English, attractively<br />
pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> three columns <strong>in</strong> Roman, Gothic and Italic type respectively.<br />
Arranged <strong>in</strong> one hundred lessons, cover<strong>in</strong>g a thousand subjects, his Lat<strong>in</strong><br />
primer revolutionized seventeenth century education. ‘His ‘Open Door to<br />
Languages’, Janua L<strong>in</strong>guarum Reserata secured the fairly uniform teach<strong>in</strong>g<br />
of Lat<strong>in</strong> throughout the cont<strong>in</strong>ent’ (PMM 139). It is not to be confused<br />
with the earlier ‘Janua l<strong>in</strong>guarum reserata’ of William Bathe and others,<br />
which it is an entirely diVerent work.<br />
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