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Hebrew). Sepher Tehilim, Mishlei, Koheleth ve-Shir ha-Shirim / Psalmi Davidis, Proverbia Salomonis, Ecclesiastes, et Canticum Canticorum [Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs] With Interlinear Latin translation by Sanctes Pagninus

Auction 34 · Lot 32

Hebrew). Sepher Tehilim, Mishlei, Koheleth ve-Shir ha-Shirim / Psalmi Davidis, Proverbia Salomonis, Ecclesiastes, et Canticum Canticorum [Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs] With Interlinear Latin translation by Sanctes Pagninus

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIBLE.

printer

Sebastian Cramoisy

Place

Paris

Publication

1632

Description

Engraved device on title. Each book with large engraved initial letter. A few Latin marginalia

references

Vinograd, Paris 77-78 (see below); not in Darlow & Moule

summary

After the earlier Geneva edition (see Lot 28). This work dedicated by Cramoisy, the Publisher, to Cardinal Armand Jean Richelieu (1585-1642), eminent French statesman and patron of the arts, sometimes referred to as the first “Prime Minister” of France. Vinograd has a Bible with Latin translation for the year 1630 (his source for this is Ben Yaakov); for the year 1632 he does not mention Latin translation (the latter edition is found in JNUL)
pp.(16), 416. Dampstained. Contemporary vellum some wear. 8vo
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