Selden, John.
De Dis Syris Syntagamata II … editio altera …
ad virum ampliss.
edited by Danielem Heinsium.
Selden's famous treatise on the study of Syrian mythology in the Bible which established the jurist's reputation as a leading scholar of Asian history.
Leyden: Elsevir, 1629
title in red and black
Original vellum binding with manuscript spine title.
Very good interior, soiling to the vellum
old full page manuscript note at front endpaper , errata verso last text leaf, double manuscript red rules added as a title surround
Text in Latin
Size 4 by 6 1/4"

John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law.
He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."
In 1617, his De diis Syriis was issued, and immediately established his fame as an orientalist.
It is remarkable for its early use of the comparative method, on Semitic mythology.
Also, in 1642, he published a part of the Arabic chronicle of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria, under the title Eutychii Aegyptii, Patriarchae Orthodoxorum Alexandrini, ... ecclesiae suae origines.
Controversial was the discussion in it of the absence in Alexandria of the distinction between priests and bishops, a burning issue in the debate at the time in the Church of England.



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