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Bidding Information
Lot #    5261
Auction End Date    8/12/2003 10:06:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Psalterium in quatuor linguis
Title (Hebrew)    תהלים
Author    [Polyglot Bible]
City    Cologne
Publisher    J. Potken
Publication Date    1518
Item of
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Interest		    Checked
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [143] f., small folio, 268:198 mm., wide margins, light browning, small tear in title, lacks final blank. A good copy of a very rare book bound in contemporary blind tooled calf with a modern spine.
          
Paragraph 1    Psalms in Hebrew, Greek, Ethiopic, and Latin. Potkin began to learn Ethiopic in 1511 and first published an Ethiopic Psalter in 1513 in Rome with the same type.
          
Detailed
Description		    Quadruplex (four language) Psalter. Psalms in Hebrew, Greek, Ethiopic, and Latin. The title page states that the languages are Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, and Latin. This is incorrect for Chaldea refers to Aramaic and the fourth language here is Ethiopic. A previous owner realized the error, for he lined out Chaldea and wrote in Aethopica. A double-spread opening of the Psalter reads from left to right: Latin, Ethiopic, Greek, and Hebrew.

The editor, Johann Potkin, began to learn Ethiopic in 1511 in Rome from Abyssinian monks, and in 1513 published an Ethiopic Psalter, the first book printed in Ethiopic characters, in Rome with the same type. This is the first printing of the Ethiopic text in a polyglot. The intricate bold wood arabesque border on the title page appeared earlier on the five language polyglot Psalter printed in Genoa in 1516.
          
Paragraph 2    המקור העברי (מנוקד ומוטעם) והתרגום היווני עמודה מול עמודה. בעמוד המקביל תרגום אתיופי (געז) ותרגום לאטיני, עמודה מול עמודה.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0304458 (No copy in JUNL); Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation, 175; Vinograd, Cologne 1 (unseen); D & M 1413
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Greek, Ethiopic, Latin
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica