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AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 55

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Polyglot. PSALMS) Psalterium, Hebreum, Grecum, Arabicum & Chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Edited and with Latin commentary by Agostino Giustiniani. Text printed in eight columns across double-page: Hebrew, literal Latin translation from the Hebrew, Latin Vulgate, literal Latin from the Chaldee, Greek Septuagint, Arabic and Aramaic (Chaldee) ff. 193 (of 200). Lacking ff. 3,50,72(?),94-5,169 and 200. Title supplied from another copy with upper left portion of border provided in facsimile. Dampstained, marginal worming on a few leaves. Later chestnut mottled calf, rubbed at extremities. Folio Vinograd, Genoa 1; Adams B-1370; Darlow & Moule 1411; See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy pp.225-9

(Genoa): Petrus Paulus Porro for Nicolo Giustiniani Paulo 1516

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

FIRST POLYGLOT BIBLE EDITION. The Second Book Printed in Arabic. THE ONLY BOOK PRINTED AT GENOA IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. AN EARLY REFERENCE TO CHIRSTOPHER COLUMBUS’ DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. (See Scholia commentary Psalm 19, verse 4)