Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium in Quatvor 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

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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 POLYGLOTT WITH AN ETHIOPIC VERSION. The title of this work is misleading; “Chaldaea” not being Aramaic but Ethiopic. 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. (144). Few light stains in places, gently damp-wrinkled, neat amrginal repairs to title. Later blind-tooled brown morocco boards, rubbed, lacking spine. 4to

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