Peterhouse : Rudimenta Hebraicae linguae, accurata methodo et brevitate conscripta

Chevalier, Antoine-Rodolphe, 1507-1572

Peterhouse

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A copy of Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier's Latin Hebrew grammar, commonly called the <i>Rudimenta Hebraicae Linguae</i>. The volume represents links of academic collaboration and friendship within the Cambridge community: Chevallier arrived in the city from his native Normandy in the mid-1500s, living with the noted Hebraist Emanuel Tremellius, who would later become his father-in-law. Tremellius himself penned a letter of commendation in Hebrew to be published with the grammar. In 1569, Chevallier became the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, where he taught the next generation of Hebraists, including Joannes Drusuis. A Hebrew inscription in the book indicates that Chevallier himself gifted this copy to Drusius. It later came into the hands of Andrew Perne, who annotated it heavily. </p>