Re: Why ibn Wahshiyah Will Get No Respect

On May 26, 12:28 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 26, 7:15 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 26, 9:09 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
? I searched wahshiyah (whole book) and got a page and a half of
references to the 1806 edition but not the 1806 edition.

Never mind: the ways of google book search are unfathomable. I
searched the translator's name and got two copies, one from the
Ashmolean and one from Monier Williams's library.

I had the same problem in my searching as well. It could have been
because of spelling differences, so my second search with the
translator's name and "hieroglyphics" as a term worked.

Your comment on the case of the Sabaean inscriptions sounds about
right to me as well, but I haven't yet reviewed the work closely.
Interestingly enough, the Arabic work is mentioned in David Kahn's
_The Codebreakers_, but the author's name and the title are slightly
different; it is the one from which an illustration of a "Davidian"
alphabet is taken.

There's an illustration of what he vocalizes as masnad that doesn't
seem to be identical to either of Roediger's examples; he doesn't seem
to say where the ms. was located. It would be nice to find out how
accurately the illustrations are copied from the ms.; they appear to
be woodcuts rather than lithographs (lithography was not yet ten years
old in 1806). Some of them are pure fancy, some are decent
resemblances to real scripts.

I don't _think_ this work is mentioned in Kopp's Bilder und Schriften
der Vorzeit -- which when I looked for it at google books was
delighted to find was recently reprinted, for the first time ever, and
very inexpensively. (There are only 6 copies in the US according to
the National Union Catalogue -- I was looking for it before electronic
library catalogs -- and the only one in Chicagoland, at the Seabury
Western Seminary in Evanston, is so closely bound that it couldn't
have been photocopied, or even photographed, even if they had allowed
such a thing in Special Collections.) Indexes were optional in 1821.
Kopp was cited through most of the 19th century; it was the first
serious attempt at Semitic paleography.
.

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