David A. Michelson, Thomas A. Carlson and Nathan P. Gibson, (eds.), "Peter of Matush — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ " in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1072 ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ Peṭros of Maṭush Peter of Matush Peter al-Matushi Buṭrus al-Maṭūši Buṭrus al-Maṭūši Petrus Metoscita Pietro Metoscita http://syriaca.org/person/1072 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_1072 http://viaf.org/viaf/12648603 Peter of Matush (known in print as Petrus Metoscita) was a cleric and scholar of Arabic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries C.E. Born to a Maronite family in Cyprus, he studied at the Maronite College in Rome where he later taught and became a Jesuit. He is the author of an Arabic grammar Institutiones linguae arabicae. 1569 Cyprus 1625 Rome male Author Macuch, Geschichte der spät- und neusyrischen Literatur 51 Institutiones linguae arabicae, ex diversis Arabum monumentis collectae, et ad quam maximam fieri potuit brevitatem, atque ordinem revocatae. Quibus addita est exercitatio grammatica in Psalmum XXXIV. Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) 196