Auction 49 · Lot 55

(BIBLE

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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printer

Petrus Paulus Porro for Nicolo Giustiniani Paulo

Place

Genoa

Publication

1516

Description

Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium, Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum & Chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Edited and with Latin commentary by Agostino Giustiniani. Text printed in eight columns across double-pages: Hebrew, literal Latin translation from the Hebrew, Latin Vulgate, Greek Septuagint, Arabic, Aramaic (Chaldee) and literal Latin from the Chaldee

references

Vinograd, Genoa 1; Adams B-1370; Darlow & Moule 1411

summary

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

ff. 192 (of 200). Lacking 2ff. in sig. A, 1f. in sig. F, 1f. in sig. I, 2ff. in sig. M, 1 f. in sig. X, 1f. in final sig. 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. Folio

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