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Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to Oxford: 24. Letter from Thomas Cawton to Samuel Clarke "at the Printing house, alias Duresmore house, in Charter-house-yard, London," in answer to a letter of 1 March, O. S.; Rotterdam, 19 Apr 1658

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 397, fol. 287b

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Golius’ approval of the sheets sent by Clarke; his proposed Persian Lexicon. Search for the lost Targum on the Chronicles. Gentius has gone to Denmark. Wishes Clarke would print Ephraem Syrus in Syriac from the copy in the library of the Archbp. of Armagh.

"Hear is one Nisolius is talking of putting out of an Ethiopick Lexicon, but he is poore. There is a French minister in Vlishing in Zealand that hath (as he sayth) a manuscript Ethiopick Lexicon more perfect than any he hath heard of."

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  • Creation: 19 Apr 1658

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1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

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MS. Rawl. D. 397, fol. 287b

Related Materials

Part of MS. Rawl. D. 397, fols. 138-440 passim, 'Another volume of Hearne’s Miscellaneous Collections III'.

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