Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Mein Gott

Here's something interesting:



From the beginning of Grammatica nova, facilis, brevis, hebraei, chaldaeique sermonis (1756) of Joannes Paulus Wartha.

What I find unusual is the use of Hebrew letters to write Gott גאט in the crest. What is this, Yiddish? It's something I've never seen before.

This book also includes a table of comparison between Aramaic and Hebrew, a very neat idea:




It also includes a dictionary, and Sefer Bereshis for some reason: