Hebrew). PSALMS. <<Annotated throughout in Latin, Greek and Dutch.>>

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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Hebrew). PSALMS. <<Annotated throughout in Latin, Greek and Dutch.>>

Elaborate woodcut printer’s device on title. Extensive (17th century) Latin marginalia in a minute hand. Rear pastedown with inscription in Dutch noting the marriage in 1487 of a daughter, Steffeni. ff. (160) printed + ff. (24) in manuscript. Light wear. 16th-century Dutch blind-tooled calf in a panel design with brass bosses and remains of clasps, rebacked. 12mo. Vinograd, Paris 19; Schreiber, Estiennes 82.

Paris: Robert Estienne 1544-46

Est: $12,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

<<A 17th-century Dutch scholar’s Book of Psalms in a fine contemporary binding.>> A fascinating volume containing the printed text of the Psalms in Hebrew, with Latin manuscript marginalia throughout. At end, appear an additional 24 manuscript Latin leaves including three pages in Greek, comprising an index containing the chapter of each Psalm in Hebrew, followed by the first line of the Psalm in Latin. This index is arranged according to the major offices of the Liturgy of the Hours, indicating that the intention was to allow this Psalter to be used to complete the daily office. In the text of the Psalms themselves, the marginal notes are often Latin paraphrases of the text with reference to other Psalms or other passages of the Bible. The intention clearly being to seek Christological underpinnings within the Hebrew text. Provenance: H.P. Kraus.