Three Latin works (bound together) on the Hebrew languages. The works were meant to enable Christian students, scholars and theologians to understand the basics of the Hebrew language in order to study the Hebrew scriptures in the original. Paris and Rome, mid-16th and early 17th centuries.

1. De re grammatica Hebraeorum opus [Work on Hebrew grammar], by Jean Cinquarbres. Paris, 1546. First edition. This edition is not recorded in the NLI catalog.

2. Compendium Michlol [Summary of the Michlol], abridged and edited version of Part I of Sefer HaMichlol by the Radak, edited by Rodolpho Bayno. Paris, 1554. First edition.

3. Institutiones in linguam sanctam Hebraicam [Basics of the holy Hebrew language], by Benedicto Blancuccio. Rome, 1608. First edition.

Three works in one volume (first two works arranged from right to left): 176 pages; [8], 141, [1] pages; [16], 295, [1] pages. Approx. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor defects. Marginal handwritten inscriptions to a few leaves. Color edges. Bookplate. Old binding, with gilt inscriptions on binding. Tears and abrasion to edges of binding and spine.