VMs: Re: Barachia

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barachia may also derive from a reference in the Bible:.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15741b.htm

Lettres de Peiresc à Borrilly:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=89282&T=2

Regards,
Dana Scott

"Rafal T. Prinke" wrote:

> Gabriel Landini wrote:
> >
> > Maybe "Barachia" means something else
> > There is a Kircher letter not in the online catalogue:
> >
> > 2.      ---. "Obelisci Aegyptiaci Sive Solaris Barachiae
> > Abennephi Interpretatio Arabica.", Rome,
> > Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae. Call
> > Number: APUG 830 (folio numers to be checked)
> > Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 180.
>
> Yes, it must be something else. I have found this book
> printed by the Prague University press in 1661:
>
>       BARACHIA NIKDANI, RABBI. Parabolae Vulpium. Prague, Typogr.
>       Universitatis, 1661. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum.
>       Engraved frontispiece.
>
>       $ 19,500.- / ? 20.946,90
>
>       Rare first edition of the Hebrew fables of Rabbi Barachia
>       Nikdani together with their Latin translation
>       by Melchior Hanel. The book is printed parallel in
>       two languages, Hebrew and Latin throughout.- Good copy.-
>       (Few minor defects).- Brunet I, 642-643; no copy in NUC.
>
> So Barachia is a Hebrew first name.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafal