DIEU, Lodewijk de and TAWUS, Jacob.

by Lodewijk de and TAWUS, Jacob Dieu

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.First edition of this Persian grammar printed with the first two books of Genesis in Persian, followed by two parallel Latin-Persian texts, apparently issued together (though often treated as separate works). The Genesis extracts are the first printed translation of any part of the Bible into Persian using Persian script, and this is only the second ever book printed in Persian. . .Dieu s grammar, written in Latin but with occasional examples given in Dutch, begins with the Persian alphabet, noting in particular those letters that are easily confused with one another, as well as the similarities and differences between Persian and Arabic orthography, noting pronunciation. The second book discusses verbs, third cases, tenses and adjectives, names, numbers and pronouns, while the fourth discusses adverbs, negations, demonstratives, interrogatives, prepositions, conjugations and interjections. The translator of the Genesis extracts was Jacob Tawus, a Persian translator who worked in Constantinople in the sixteenth century; his biblical translations had been printed in the Polyglot Bible published in Constantinople in 1546, but transliterated into Hebrew letters. . .The second part is a life of St. Peter derived from a contaminated source, while the final work, an equally corrupted account of the life of Christ, uses the Latin translation from a Persian text by Jeronimo Xavier, grand-nephew of Francis Xavier, who assisted in the foundation of the Jesuits. Jeronimo was a missiona

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