James Bonaventure Hepburn
- James Bonaventure Hepburn
James Bonaventure Hepburn (born in 1573 in East Lothian, Scotland, died 1620). He was a Roman Catholic scholar of some renown and rose to the post of Keeper of Orential Books and Manuscripts at the Vatican. In 1591 he published a work on his study of the Hebrew language and in 1616 his work on other foreign languages was published as "The Heavenly Golden Rod of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Seventy-two Praises" (also known as "Virga Aurea"), a listing of 72 different alphabets. He was also known for translating into the Latin language the "Kettar Malcuth of Rabbi Solomon".
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