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BIBLE, OLD TESTAMENT, Psalms, Polyglot. Psalterium in quatuor linguis Hebraea Graeca Chaldaea Latina. Edited by Johann Potken, with assistance by Johann Soter. Cologne: Johann Potken, [June] 1518.
2o (262 x 184 mm). Title within elaborate woodcut border, section title for the Introductiunculae in tres linguas. (Title with a few marginal repairs and one internal repaired tear affecting a few letters, some intermittent dampstaining and spotting, heaviest at end.) 17th-century vellum over pasteboard (rebacked, some wear). Provenance: Jacob P.R. Lyell (armorial bookplate; ?his note laid-in) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate) -- donated to SMS 12 December 1946.
Potken learned Ethiopic from Abyssinian monks in Rome and edited an Ethiopic Psalter printed in 1513. The present is the second book printed with Ethiopic type. The present copy contains the rare final section Introductionculae in tres linguas externas. Hebraeam Graecam Chaldaeam. Adams B-1371; Darlow & Moule 1413; Pr 10598.
2o (262 x 184 mm). Title within elaborate woodcut border, section title for the Introductiunculae in tres linguas. (Title with a few marginal repairs and one internal repaired tear affecting a few letters, some intermittent dampstaining and spotting, heaviest at end.) 17th-century vellum over pasteboard (rebacked, some wear). Provenance: Jacob P.R. Lyell (armorial bookplate; ?his note laid-in) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate) -- donated to SMS 12 December 1946.
Potken learned Ethiopic from Abyssinian monks in Rome and edited an Ethiopic Psalter printed in 1513. The present is the second book printed with Ethiopic type. The present copy contains the rare final section Introductionculae in tres linguas externas. Hebraeam Graecam Chaldaeam. Adams B-1371; Darlow & Moule 1413; Pr 10598.