Book Title: Augusti Pfeiferi D. Critica sacra : de sacri codicis partitione, editionibus variis, lingvis originalibus & illibatà puritate fontium, interpretatione Scripturae legitima, nec non ejusdem translatione in lingvas totius universi de Masora & Kabbala, Talmude deniqve & Alcorano : accessere, suisque locis inserti sunt tractatus quatuor, I. De antiquis ritibus Ebraeorum, II. De natura, usu et subsidiis linguarum orientalium omnium, III. De compendiaria ratione legendi scripta rabbinico-talmudica, IV. De accentuatione tàm prosaica quam metrica facilè discenda.

Author: Pfeiffer, August, 1640-1698

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Description: This Historiated Title-Page border features 4 horses, each representing a different continent, pulling the chariot of the LINGUAE ORIGINALES (“Original Languages”), Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. The charioteer holds the SCRIPTURA TRIUMPHANS (“Triumphing Scripture”), the Bible, and the chariot is rolling over personifications of the Kabbalah, Talmud, and Koran, while being followed by the Masora and Apocrypha.

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