Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium in Quatvor Linguis Hebraea Graeca Chaldaea Latina. Text printed in four columns across double-page. Hebrew, Greek, Amharic (Ethiopian)- not Chaldee, and Latin. Edited by Johann Potken, with the assistance of Johann Soter.

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Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium in Quatvor Linguis Hebraea Graeca Chaldaea Latina. Text printed in four columns across double-page. Hebrew, Greek, Amharic (Ethiopian)- not Chaldee, and Latin. Edited by Johann Potken, with the assistance of Johann Soter.

Title within elaborate woodcut arabesque and floral border. ff. 114 (of 144). Ex-library, title and few other leaves crudely repairs, discolored. Later boards, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Cologne 1; Darlow & Moule 1413; Adams B-1371; D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968) no. 175.

Cologne: n.p 1518

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

<<THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN COLOGNE. THE FIRST BIBLICAL POLYGLOT WITH AN ETHIOPIC TRANSLATION.>> The title of this work is misleading; “Chaldaea” not being Aramaic but Ethiopic. The editor, Johann Potken learned Ethiopic from Abyssinian monks in Rome and edited the first Ethiopic Psalter printed in 1513. The present edition is the first appearance of the Ethiopic version in a polyglot edition.