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Book of Tehillim – Nuremberg, 1602 – Multilingual Edition Edited by Elias Hutter
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Psalterium Harmonicum, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, & Germanicè. Edited by Elias Hutter. Nuremberg, 1602.
Multilingual edition of the Book of Tehillim, edited by Hebraist Elias Hutter, Hebrew lecturer at the University of Leipzig, as an aid to students of ancient languages.
The text is arranged in five columns: Hebrew, Latin transcription of Hebrew, Greek, German and Latin, with a sixth narrow, blank column for handwritten notes.
863 pages. Approx. 18 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor defects. Signatures and inscriptions on endpapers; inscriptions and notations on margins of some leaves (in blank columns meant to be filled in by hand). Close trimming, bordering text, affecting frames of some pages. Early parchment binding, with stains and wear.
See: Darlow & Moule 1433; Y. Yudlov, Ginzei Yisrael, no. 1902.
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