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PHILIP FERDINANDUS

THE Jew referred to was Philip Ferdinandus (1555?‒1598), a native of Poland. He was converted to Roman Catholicism, but afterwards became a Protestant. He taught Hebrew at Oxford, and subsequently at Cambridge (D.N.B.).

His only publication is entitled:――

_Hæc sunt verba Dei, etc._ |

Praecepta In Monte Sinai | data Iudæis sunt 613, quorum 365 negativa, & 248 af-|firmativa, collecta per Pharisæum Magistrum Abraha-|mum filium Kattani, & impressa in Bibliis Bomber-|giensibus, anno à mundo creato 5288 Vene-|tiis, ab Authore VOX DEI appellata: |

translata in linguam Latinam per _Phi-|lippum Ferdinandum Polonum_. |

_His accesserunt nonnulla quæ sequens pa-|gina indicabit._ |

_Lex Dei integra est, Psal. 19._ |

_Aperi oculos meos, vt videam mirabilia legis tuæ._ |

_Vocem audivistis, et similtudinem non vidistis, | præter vocem._ Deut. 4. 12. |

Vox Dei semel data est per Mosem in monte Sinai. |

Sed similitudinem videre. i. arcana, singulis diebus da-|tur. _Ex Hazoar._ |

Cum licentia omnium primariorum virorum in in-|clyta & celeberrima Cantabrigiensi Academia.

Cantabrigiae, | Ex officina Iohannis Legat. 1597. |

(_4to._ 3 _ll._ + A‒H. in fours.) [B. M.]