Alphabetum hebraicum et graecum. 1511?. 4°. Paris: Gilles de Gourmont, for an unknown English bookseller.

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1511
Alphabetum hebraicum et graecum.
[Paris]: [pr. by G. de Gourmont? for a English bookseller], [1511?].
4°: A⁸.
Printed in Paris for an unknown English bookseller, probably printed with the typographical material of Gilles de Gourmont.
The woodcut Hebrew letters and Greek contractions are found in other Parisian editions (1514, 1517).
Omont dates the book to 1509/1510 from the device with the arms of England showing the emblems of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine (McKerrow 57.1); the device is also found in a Diurnale Sarum, Paris, 1512, STC 15861.7); it is similar to McKerrow 57 which is probably a copy of it.
The contents are probably taken from Aldus Manutius’s Institutiones grammaticae of 1511 published by Poncet Le Preux (IS001103).
The preliminary poems are by Petrus Antonius Cagianigus, Paulinus Carnevalus and Ioannes Franciscus Cruci; the final poem is by Antonellus Arcimboldus.
Signature pattern: ‘$.i.’–‘$.iij.’.
Catchword pattern: none.
Types: R6 (100mm); R16 (76mm); Gk5C (76mm).
Initials: none.
Devices: McKerrow 57.1.
Illustrations: woodcut Hebrew letters.
D. J. Shaw ‘An English bookseller’s device used in Paris c. 1512’, The Library, 7th s., 11 (2010) 468–73.
Omont IX.
[IS000550]C.29.h.19.