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Lot n° 208
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250 - 300
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East Africa - WEMMERS (Jacques). Lexicon Aethiopicum [...] R - Lot 208
East Africa - WEMMERS (Jacques). Lexicon Aethiopicum [...] Rome, Imprimerie de la Congrégation de la Propagation de la Foi, 1638. Small in-4 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Rubbed and worn.
[8] ff, 319-[1] pp, [1] bl. f., 47 pp. (Institutiones Grammaticae...), [56] pp. (index). Marginal tear without loss of text on f. A2 of Part 2.
Jacques Wemmers (1598-1645), a Flemish Carmelite and specialist in Guezze, distinguished himself early on through his talent for languages, trained in Rome with the Propaganda Fide. Author in 1638 of an Ethiopian-Latin lexicon and grammar praised by the scholars of his day, he was appointed Inspector of the Ethiopian Mission by Urban VIII. Consecrated bishop in 1645 for this mission, he died shortly afterwards in Naples en route to Egypt.
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