[Psalterium prophetae Dauidis, Hebraeum Graecum & Latinum : iam denuò ad probatissimorum codicum fidem, collatis Veterum Orthodoxorum interpretum translationibus, emendatum & in omnibus difficilioribus locis, annotationibus explicatum / Petro Artopoeo autore].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Artopoeus, Peter, 1491-1563.

Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Psalms. Polyglot. 1548.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Hebrew

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Maïence, Joseph-Arnoud, -1811 (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)

Teller, Arthur (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages, 1375 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Psalterium prophetae Davidis, Hebraeum Graecum & Latinum

Fingerprint:

i.o, uset *.*- ause (3) 1548 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Basileae]: [Apud Henrichum Petri], anno MDXLVIII [1548]

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: title leaf ([alpha]1) wanting, with the title leaf of another edition (VD 16 B 3116; statement of responsibility reads: Catholicis quibusdam viris autoribus) bound in its place. Title and imprint supplied from VD 16.

Signatures: pi1 [alpha]2-[alpha]8, [beta]⁸ a-z⁸ A-S⁸ aa-mm⁸ nn⁴ AA⁴ BB-MM⁸ aA-xX⁸ (leaves S8 and 2n4 blanks)

Leaves a1 and A1 unsigned.

Register on leaf P8v.

Woodcut printer's device (leaf xX8v) and initials.

Text printed primarily in double columns.

Local Notes:

CJS Rare copy has some ms. underlines and marginal notes in text; illegible early ms. inscription (cropped) at head of title leaf; 2 ms. inscriptions ("Schröeder") on title leaf; partially illegible ms. inscription ("No. [...] [...] [...]") on title leaf; ms. inscription in Hebrew characters at foot of title leaf; partially illegible ms. inscription ("C. Alex Alexius [...]"), struck through, at foot of title leaf.

CJS Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 at auction from Kestenbaum & Company (sale 76, lot 63).

CJS Rare copy has bookplate ("MAIENCE CURÉ DE DIEUZE") of Joseph-Arnoud Maïence (d. 1811) on front pastedown.

CJS Rare copy has embossed stamp ("EX LIBRIS ARTHUR TELLER MD POST TENEBRAS LUX") on free endpapers, blank leaf following front free endpaper, title leaf, and leaves [alpha]2-[alpha]4 and ee1-ee4; partially illegible round stamp ("EX LIBRIS ARTHUR TELLE[...]") on front free endpaper and blank leaf following front free endpaper.

CJS Rare copy has partially illegible and partially effaced (with white-out?) round blue ink stamp ("[...] DE SAINT DIE") on title leaf.

CJS Rare copy bound in full leather; gold-tooled cover edges; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("PSALTERIVM TRILINGVE") stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges stippled red and brown.

CJS Rare copy: leaves cropped with damage to ms. marginalia; lower portion of leaves in first half of volume dampstained.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Cited in:

VD 16 B 3115

OCLC:

80883952