‎DE DIEU, Louis - ( Lodewijk de Dieu ) - Guillaume VOELLUS ( Voille ) ( provenance ) :‎
‎Id est Grammatica Linguarum Orientalum, Hebraeorum , Chaldaeorum, & Syrorum, inter se collatarum.‎

‎" Lugduni Batavorum ( Leiden ) , Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1628, small in-4°, 20 x 14,5 cm, (16)nn pp + 423 pp + (1)nn pp (blank), bound in old vellum, endpapers renewed. Copy from the library of Guillaume Voellus - Gulielmus Voille (theologian of the Sorbonne University), his manuscript ex-libris on the first and the last blank page. Fine copy of one of the first comparative grammars of the bible languages ; Hebrew , Chaldean and Syrian. (See e.g. Jean Robert Armogathe ; ''Le Grand Siècle et la Bible'' pp. 88). The author Lodewijk de Dieu (Vlissingen - Flushing 1590 - Leiden 1642) played an important role in the Walloon Protestant Church in the Netherlands. They were the French-speaking protestants of the Southern Netherlands which had fled to Zeeland and Holland to escape the Inquisition. The family obviously had a knack for languages; his father , also called Louis, was the revisor of the bible translation made on the instigation of Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde. The author must have been a real scholarly recluse ; twice he refused an important promotion . In 1613 prince Maurits asked him to become preacher at his court ; in 1642, just before his death e refused a professorship at the newly founded Utrecht university. (Willems 294)."‎

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