BIBLE, Psalms, Polyglot. -- Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossa. Edited by Agostino Giustiniani (1470-1536). [Genoa]: Pietro Paulo Porro in the house of Nicolò Giustiniani Paulo, November 1516. Imperial 4 o (308 x 227 mm). 200 leaves. Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Roman types. 41 lines, the texts printed in eight parallel columns across page openings, four columns to a page. Titles printed in red and black within fine woodcut arabesque and floral border, headings to beginning of text printed in red. Woodcut white-on-black printer's device at end. 13 woodcut floriated initials (5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic). (Some worming and dampstaining throughout.) Later vellum (with old rebacking); cloth folding case. FIRST POLYGLOT EDITION OF ANY PART OF THE BIBLE, THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN ARABIC, and the only book printed at Genoa in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. The Milanese printer Pietro Paulo Porro, master of the mint of the Duc de Savoie, had established a press at Turin in 1512 with two of his brothers. At some time between 1512 and 1516, the learned Dominican Agostino Giustiniani, Bishop of Nebbio in Corsica from 1514 and later Professor of Hebrew at the newly founded Collège de France, summoned Porro to Genoa for the production of this edition, which Giustiniani supervised and financed, and for which he wrote the commentary. This includes a long note to Psalm 19, verse 4, ON THE LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS and his discoveries (C7r-C8v), containing previously unpublished information on his second voyage. The types were designed and cut for this edition under Porro's direction. The text in eight parallel columns on double pages comprises Hebrew, a literal Latin translation from the Hebrew, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, Arabic, Aramaic (Chaldee), a literal Latin translation from the Aramaic, and Giustiniani's scholia in the same languages. Giustiniani described his difficulties in selling the edition in his history of Genoa, published 1537: "in a community abandoned to the lust of lucre, it is scarcely necessary to say that the undertaking was viewed with supine indifference" (Harrisse, p. 157). He also recorded an edition size of 2,000 paper copies and 50 copies on vellum. Adams B-1370; Alden and Landis 516/4; Cowley 75; Darlow & Moule 1411; Fumagalli, pp. 170-171; Harrisse BAV 88; Sander 5957.
BIBLE, Psalms, Polyglot. -- Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossa. Edited by Agostino Giustiniani (1470-1536). [Genoa]: Pietro Paulo Porro in the house of Nicolò Giustiniani Paulo, November 1516. Imperial 4 o (308 x 227 mm). 200 leaves. Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Roman types. 41 lines, the texts printed in eight parallel columns across page openings, four columns to a page. Titles printed in red and black within fine woodcut arabesque and floral border, headings to beginning of text printed in red. Woodcut white-on-black printer's device at end. 13 woodcut floriated initials (5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic). (Some worming and dampstaining throughout.) Later vellum (with old rebacking); cloth folding case. FIRST POLYGLOT EDITION OF ANY PART OF THE BIBLE, THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN ARABIC, and the only book printed at Genoa in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. The Milanese printer Pietro Paulo Porro, master of the mint of the Duc de Savoie, had established a press at Turin in 1512 with two of his brothers. At some time between 1512 and 1516, the learned Dominican Agostino Giustiniani, Bishop of Nebbio in Corsica from 1514 and later Professor of Hebrew at the newly founded Collège de France, summoned Porro to Genoa for the production of this edition, which Giustiniani supervised and financed, and for which he wrote the commentary. This includes a long note to Psalm 19, verse 4, ON THE LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS and his discoveries (C7r-C8v), containing previously unpublished information on his second voyage. The types were designed and cut for this edition under Porro's direction. The text in eight parallel columns on double pages comprises Hebrew, a literal Latin translation from the Hebrew, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, Arabic, Aramaic (Chaldee), a literal Latin translation from the Aramaic, and Giustiniani's scholia in the same languages. Giustiniani described his difficulties in selling the edition in his history of Genoa, published 1537: "in a community abandoned to the lust of lucre, it is scarcely necessary to say that the undertaking was viewed with supine indifference" (Harrisse, p. 157). He also recorded an edition size of 2,000 paper copies and 50 copies on vellum. Adams B-1370; Alden and Landis 516/4; Cowley 75; Darlow & Moule 1411; Fumagalli, pp. 170-171; Harrisse BAV 88; Sander 5957.
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