Jean Cinqarbres Explained

Jean Cinqarbres (Latin name Quinquarboreus) (c.1520s in Aurillac – June 1565) was a French grammarian of Hebrew. With his colleague Jean Mercier (Hebraist) (Mercerus) he shared the role of conjunct royal professor of Hebrew and Syriac.^[1]

Publications

• 1546: De Re grammatica Hebraeorum opus
• 1549: Targum, seu Paraphrasis Caldaica in Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae
• 1551: Sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi hebraicum Evangelium secundum Matthaeum
• 1559: Institutiones in linguam hebraïcam, sive Epitome operis de re grammatica Hebraeorum
• 1559: Tabula in grammaticen hebraeam, authore Nicolao Clenardo, a Johanne Quinquarboreo repurgata et annotationibus illustrata
• 1570: Avicennae. Libri tertii fen secunda, quae latine ex synonymo hebraïco Ophan reddi potest : intuitus, sive rotundus sermo secundus, qui est de aegritudinibus nervorum, tractatu uno contentus, ad fidem codicis hebraïci latinus factus

Notes and References

1. The Medical renaissance of the sixteenth century p24 Andrew Wear, Roger Kenneth French, Iain M. Lonie - 1985 "Three short excerpts from book three were also translated from the Hebrew by Jean Cinqarbres, regius professor of ... But the Cinqarbres' translations seem never to have achieved either the circulation or the influence of those of "