(BIBLE). Sepher Tehillim - Liber Psalmorum. Hebrew and Latin prepared by Johannes Leusden

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Balt. Lobee

Utrecht

1688

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Vinograd, Utrecht 8

This Psalter is dedicated to Dr. Increase Mather, President of Harvard College “unequaled in reputation and power by any natives-born American Puritan of his generation.” (DAB). Johann Leusden (1624-1699) was a professor of Hebrew at Utrecht University. He is most famous for having produced in collaboration with the Amsterdam publisher Joseph Athias the magnificent Biblia Hebraica (1661) which served as a model for publications of the Bible up to the 19th century. Leusden also translated the register of 613 commandments that heads Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Utrecht, 1656). See EJ, Vol. 11, cols. 63-6