Author: SIONITA Gabriel - Victorius SCIALAE Maronitae ( editors - translators ) - [ ] King DAVID - Johannes BUSKAGRIUS ( provenance ) :
Title: Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis et Prophetae. Ex Arabico Idiomate in Latinum translatus. A Gabriele Sionita Edeniensi & Victorio Scialae Accurensi Maronitis, è Monte Libano, Philosophiae, & Savrae Theologiae professoribus.... Opus tam Sacrarum literarum, quam Linguae Arabicae studiosis utilissimum....
Description: .: Romae, Ex Typographia Sauariana, 1614, Excudebat Stephanus Paulinus, in-4°, 213 x164 mm, (12) nn pp + 474 pp + (2)nn pp , ( complete). Title and last page with vignette, printed in two colums ( Latin - Arabic ). Each page with a typographical bordser consisting of a double fillet. Printed from back to front. Bound in contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Vellum slightly soiled and stained, spine with a small hole, a small wormhole in the margin of the first 5 leaves , but a very fine copy. Copy from the library of Johannes Buskagrius, with his manuscript ex-libris on the title page. Also with a later Uppsala ex-libris ( 1713), with some old annotations on the first fly leaf. Buskagrius ( 1629 - 1692 ) was professor at Uppsala university . He taught oriental languages. He had studied with Buxtorf in Basle and Hottinger in Heidelberg. The book contains a dedication to king Louis XIII of France and was authorised to be printed by cardinal Bellarmino. It contains the 151 psalms , 8 Laudatios and 2 Oratios. USTC ref. 4022201.. .

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