# Specimen diligentiae ad linguas Haebraicam, Chaldaicam, Syriacam et Arabicam impensae ab Emanuele Hrdličzka. Manuscript on paper. [Prague?], 1835



**Autore:** Hrdlička Emanuel František

**Dati editoriali:** 1835

**Codice archivio:** 173

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## Descrizione accademica e analisi

8vo (204x125 mm). [88] leaves, written in brown ink. Calligraphic title within a geometrical border; texts and glosses in Hebrew, Chaldean/Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Greek and Latin. Contemporary boards covered in green moiré-effect cloth, gilt edges. Provenance annotations in red ink by Adolf Wanieczek/Vaněček, theology graduate, with red wax seal. Very well preserved. An apparently unpublished polyglot philological specimen prepared by the young Czech Benedictine scholar Emanuel František Hrdlička, probably as a formal demonstration of proficiency in the principal Biblical and Semitic languages. The carefully executed title-page, systematic arrangement of the exercises and finished binding suggest a manuscript intended for presentation or academic assessment rather than an ordinary student notebook, although its precise institutional purpose has not yet been documented. The manuscript contains Biblical texts accompanied by detailed Latin lexical and grammatical commentary. A Hebrew section includes Psalm 27:6, written in a large vocalised hand and followed by word-by-word analysis. The Syriac section includes Psalm 2:2–3, with Latin translation and comparative references to Hebrew and Chaldean forms, showing a genuinely comparative approach to Semitic philology. The Arabic portion broadens the programme beyond strictly Biblical material and includes moral or scholarly maxims, among them the sentence rendered in Latin: “Minime scientia est, quod continet bibliotheca; nulla est scientia, nisi quam continet pectus” (‘Knowledge is not that which is contained in a library; true knowledge is that which is contained in the breast’). The volume is therefore an attractive witness to the teaching of Oriental and Biblical languages in the Habsburg lands in the early nineteenth century, combining scriptural exegesis, grammar and comparative Semitic study. The term “Chaldean” here reflects contemporary theological usage for Biblical Aramaic. Emanuel František Hrdlička was born at Komorní Hrádek on 17 September 1810 and died in Prague on 6 February 1883. A Benedictine priest and educator, he later became director of the gymnasium at Klatovy and subsequently served in České Budějovice. From 1871 to 1880 he was prior-administrator of the Benedictine monastery of Emmaus in Prague, remaining its last superior before the monastery passed to the Beuronese Benedictine congregation. The manuscript predates his later educational and monastic career by several decades and provides unusually direct evidence of the philological training that underlay his intellectual formation.

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## Bibliografia di riferimento

Ztichlá klika – antikvariát, galerie, nakladatelství, catalogue ID 27191. Gymnázium Jaroslava Vrchlického Klatovy, historical list of directors, recording František Emanuel Hrdlička as director, 1864–1867. Emauzy: historie kláštera, on Hrdlička’s administration of the Emmaus monastery, 1871–1880.

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