{"product_id":"cleynaerts-nicolas-with-caligny-alain-restauld-de","title":"CLEYNAERTS, Nicolas. (With) CALIGNY, Alain Restauld de.","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo very rare Hebrew grammars, the first a scarce edition of Cleynaert s extremely popular Hebrew grammar, first published 1529, bound with the second recorded edition ( tertia editio  on title-page) of a rare grammar first published 1541. Both are aimed at beginners, starting with the alphabet. However, while Cleynaert spends a great deal of time on nouns and their declinations - his book must have been useful to learners principally because of its extensive tables of declinations, with attention to the changes in accents or punctuation - before moving onto verbs, de Caligny moves straight onto verbs, only then dealing with nouns as they are used in relation to verbs, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions, etc..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCleynaerts, a wonderfully prolific author, was an eccentric figure who saw linguistic scholarship as a means of peaceful mediation between Christians, Jews and Muslims, as well as a means to proselytization. Educated at Leuven in his native Brabant, he first travelled in Spain, where he applied in vain to read Arabic manuscripts in the library of the Inquisition, before going to Fez in Morocco, where he insisted on living in the Jewish (rather than the official Christian) quarter. Despite suffering abuse from local Jews, he found some who were willing to teach him Arabic in return for tuition in Latin, but was unsuccessful in his attempts to buy Arabic books from the bookstalls of the Great Mosque, since non-Muslims were banned. He returned to Granada after just over a year, having suffered a great deal, and died there in 1542. He is buried in the Alhambra. De Caligny, about whom much less is known, was a Hebraist of Vatable s and Mercier's circle in the Collège Royale de Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy shows engagement by several readers. One contemporary annotator demonstrates an understanding of Hebrew grammar, expressed in contradictions of Cleynaert, notably over pronunciation of diphthongs and certain syllables (p. 16). Another, the most extensive, clearly applied his studies to Talmudic or biblical scholarship, given references to the Psalms, Book of Ruth, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CLEYNAERTS, Nicolas. (With) CALIGNY, Alain Restauld de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868723716431,"sku":"L4835A","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/cleynaerts-nicolas-with-caligny-alain-restauld-de","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}