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AUCTION 49 |
Wednesday, October 27th,
2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art
Lot 55
(BIBLE
Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porro for Nicolo Giustiniani Paulo 1516
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
THE FIRST POLYGLOT BIBLE EDITION.
“A monument of Renaissance typography, this Psalter was linguistically the most ambitious work attempted to date, and the first Polyglot work ever published. It provides the Psalms in five languages as well as a marginal scholarship based largely on rabbinic sources. The Arabic text is one of the first two texts and the first biblical text, ever printed in this language.” See, B. Sabin Hill, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust, The Piermont Morgan Library (1989), no. 18.
In relation to the the verse in Psalms “Their line has extended throughout the earth and their words to the end of the world” (Chap. XIX v. 4), the scholia commenatry contains a lengthy passage relating to the Genoese Christopher Columbus’ life and voyage to America