A PRINTED BOOK ON 'DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE PSALMI (SAVARY'S...
A PRINTED BOOK ON 'DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE PSALMI (SAVARY'S ARABIC PSALTER)'
Printed by Typographia Sauariana, Rome, Italy, 1619
224 pages, second edition of Savary's Arabic Psalter, which includes the Psalms of David, translated from Arabic to Latin by two distinguished Maronite scholars, Nasrallah Salaq Al-Aquri (Victor Scialac) and Gabriel Sionita, who were part of the broader intellectual movement in Rome aimed at producing scholarly editions of Eastern Christian texts to foster linguistic studies and theological dialogue; the typeface was created by Savary de Brèves, the French ambassador in Rome, who previously served as the French envoy at Constantinople; he established a specialised Arabic and Oriental press to disseminate foundational texts for the study of biblical languages; the Psalms' text is based on a manuscript he had bought in Jerusalem; with vellum binding and ownership sticker 'Library of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadephia'.
22.8cm x 17cm x 4.1cm
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A PRINTED BOOK ON 'DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE PSALMI (SAVARY'S ARABIC PSALTER)'
Printed by Typographia Sauariana, Rome, Italy, 1619
224 pages, second edition of Savary's Arabic Psalter, which includes the Psalms of David, translated from Arabic to Latin by two distinguished Maronite scholars, Nasrallah Salaq Al-Aquri (Victor Scialac) and Gabriel Sionita, who were part of the broader intellectual movement in Rome aimed at producing scholarly editions of Eastern Christian texts to foster linguistic studies and theological dialogue; the typeface was created by Savary de Brèves, the French ambassador in Rome, who previously served as the French envoy at Constantinople; he established a specialised Arabic and Oriental press to disseminate foundational texts for the study of biblical languages; the Psalms' text is based on a manuscript he had bought in Jerusalem; with vellum binding and ownership sticker 'Library of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadephia'.
22.8cm x 17cm x 4.1cm
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Time, Location
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