1691 One of the Earliest Comprehensive Histories of the Greek Language

Historia Graecae Linguae — Laurentius Ingewaldus Elingius (1691), [12] leaves, 354 pages COMPLETE. Binding dry and worn. Hinges cracked and delicate but holding. Moderate to heavier foxing throughout. 6 5/8 by 4 inches. 

Provenance: from the Macclesfield Library: The dispersal of the great library once held at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, and formed by the 1st and 2nd Earls of Macclesfield in the 18th century.

Laurentius (Lorenz) Ingewaldus Elingius (d. 1688), professor at the University of Uppsala, authored one of the earliest comprehensive histories of the Greek language printed in northern Europe.

The work is a scholarly history of the Greek language, covering:

1. Origins of the Greek Language

Early Greek dialects

Pre‑Homeric linguistic development

2. Classical Greek

Attic, Ionic, Doric, Aeolic dialects

Literary Greek of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, and others

3. Hellenistic and Koine Greek

Spread of Greek after Alexander

Linguistic features of the Koine

4. Late Antique and Byzantine Greek

Christian Greek writers

Influence of Hebrew and Latin

Decline and transformation of Greek in the medieval period

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