Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium in Quatuor 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

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

(BIBLE,

printer

n.p.

Place

Cologne

Publication

1518

Description

Title within elaborate woodcut arabesque and floral border

references

Vinograd, Cologne 1; Darlow & Moule 1413; Adams B-1371; D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968), no. 175

summary

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

ff. 142 (of 144). First and final leaves reinforced. Waterstains. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed and rebacked. 4to

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