Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Chaldean Psalter
(Psalterium Hebr[a]eum, Gr[a]ecu[m], Arabicu[m], & Chald[a]eu[m])

Name: Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Chaldean Psalter
Author: Giustiniani, Agostino, 1470-1536, editor

Title	Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Chaldean Psalter
Title Original	Psalterium Hebr[a]eum, Gr[a]ecu[m], Arabicu[m], & Chald[a]eu[m]
Author	Giustiniani, Agostino, 1470-1536, editor
Author Original	Giustiniani, Agostino, 1470-1536, editor
Publication Date:	1516
Publication Place	[Knees - In the house of Nicolaus Justiniani Paulus
Subject	Columbus, Christopher. Printing, Arabic > Italy. America > Early accounts to 1600. 1516 Genoa (Italy) > Imprints (Nicolaus Justiniani Paulus; Pietro Paolo Porro) Woodcuts > Italy > 16th century.
Type	Book
Language	ara,grc,heb,lat,sem
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	[400] p. ; 33 cm. (square 4to)
Library:	The Cornell University Library
Record ID	4731791
Library Location	Cornell University Library
Date	1516
Notes	T.p. in red and black. Title within ornamental border. Signatures: A¹⁰, B-Z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁶ Edited by Agostino Giustiniani (1470-1536), bishop of Nebbio. According to a note to Psalms 78, he was assisted by Jacobus Furnius in the correction of the Greek text, and by Baptista Cigala in the Arabic. Imprint supplied from Latin colophon, sig. [con]5: "Impressit... Petrus Paulus Porrus, Genuae in Aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli ... anno ... millesimo quingentesimo sextodecimo mense. VIIIIbri." Title in five languages, printed in red and black within woodcut arabasque border. Text in 8 columns across double page: Hebrew, literal Latin version of Hebrew, Latin Vulgate, Greek Septuagint, Arabic, Chaldee (in Hebrew characters), literal Latin version of the Chaldee, and Scholia (commentary). Colophon on sig. [con]5v-6r printed in all five languages. This is the first polyglot version of any part of the Bible. In Psalm 19, sigs. C7-D1, the editor inserted a long note, in the marginal commentary, describing the life and discoveries of Christopher Colombus. According to Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, v. 2, this is the first printed biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus, with hitherto unpublished accounts of his second voyage. Printer's device on final leaf. According to Davies, this mark was used only in the Polyglot Psalter. Le Long states that 2,000 copies were printed on paper and 50 on vellum. The Genoa senate ordered all copies destroyed. According to dealer's catalog, it contains the first printing of Arabic.
Kaynaklar	Adams, B1370 Catalogo colectivo, P3225 Darlow & Moule, 1411 Brunet, IV, 919 Fumagalli, p. 171 (reproduction) Isaac, 13835 RELICS, 4241

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Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Chaldean Psalter

(Psalterium Hebr[a]eum, Gr[a]ecu[m], Arabicu[m], & Chald[a]eu[m])

Author Giustiniani, Agostino, 1470-1536, editor

Author Original Giustiniani, Agostino, 1470-1536, editor

Publication Date 1516

Publication Place [Knees - In the house of Nicolaus Justiniani Paulus

Subject Columbus, Christopher. Printing, Arabic > Italy. America > Early accounts to 1600. 1516 Genoa (Italy) > Imprints (Nicolaus Justiniani Paulus; Pietro Paolo Porro) Woodcuts > Italy > 16th century.

Type Book

Language ara,grc,heb,lat,sem

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions [400] p. ; 33 cm. (square 4to)

Library The Cornell University Library

Record ID 4731791

Library Location Cornell University Library

Date 1516

Notes T.p. in red and black. Title within ornamental border. Signatures: A¹⁰, B-Z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁶ Edited by Agostino Giustiniani (1470-1536), bishop of Nebbio. According to a note to Psalms 78, he was assisted by Jacobus Furnius in the correction of the Greek text, and by Baptista Cigala in the Arabic. Imprint supplied from Latin colophon, sig. [con]5: "Impressit... Petrus Paulus Porrus, Genuae in Aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli ... anno ... millesimo quingentesimo sextodecimo mense. VIIIIbri." Title in five languages, printed in red and black within woodcut arabasque border. Text in 8 columns across double page: Hebrew, literal Latin version of Hebrew, Latin Vulgate, Greek Septuagint, Arabic, Chaldee (in Hebrew characters), literal Latin version of the Chaldee, and Scholia (commentary). Colophon on sig. [con]5v-6r printed in all five languages. This is the first polyglot version of any part of the Bible. In Psalm 19, sigs. C7-D1, the editor inserted a long note, in the marginal commentary, describing the life and discoveries of Christopher Colombus. According to Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, v. 2, this is the first printed biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus, with hitherto unpublished accounts of his second voyage. Printer's device on final leaf. According to Davies, this mark was used only in the Polyglot Psalter. Le Long states that 2,000 copies were printed on paper and 50 on vellum. The Genoa senate ordered all copies destroyed. According to dealer's catalog, it contains the first printing of Arabic.

Kaynaklar Adams, B1370 Catalogo colectivo, P3225 Darlow & Moule, 1411 Brunet, IV, 919 Fumagalli, p. 171 (reproduction) Isaac, 13835 RELICS, 4241