LIBER PSALMORUM DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE EX ARABICO IDIOMA - Lot 21

LIBER PSALMORUM DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE EX ARABICO IDIOMATE IN LATINUM TRANSLATUS Stephanus Paulinus, Imprimerie Sauariara, Rome, 1614 First edition, book printed on paper of 474 ff. in a beige parchment binding. Very damaged towards the end of the book. Apparently complete. Leaves: 22.5 x 16 cm. Four Persian lithographed books, Qajare period, 19th century. This is the first edition of this adaptation of the Psalms with a bilingual Arabic-Latin text. Only 3,000 copies were printed. This collection is renowned for the clarity and elegance of the typeface created by François Savary de Brèves (1560-1628), French ambassador to Constantinople and famous orientalist. The Arabic text of the psalms is said to be based on a manuscript he acquired in Constantinople. The work enjoyed great popularity among orientalists. Provenance: Galerie R.G. Michel in 1912. Then Michel Collection (1880-1963). Then by descent. Then Collection P.