Descriptive Information

Title

Quincuplex psalterium : Gallicum, Rhomanum, Hebraicum, vetus, conciliatum : pr[a]eponu[n]tur quae subter adijciuntur : epistola, epilogus disputationis psal. xxx, appendix in psal. xxx, prologi Hieronymi tres, partitio psalmorum triplex, indices psalmorum duo.

Identifier

ark:/88435/qr46r930c

Publisher

[Paris : Henri Estienne, 1513].

Language

Latin

Date Created

1513

Extent

[12], 294 leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Source Acquisition

GAX copy is gift of Elmer Adler.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Edited with commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

Edition statement at head of title.

Colophon: Absolutum fuit hoc quincuplicis psalterii opus in coenobio Sancti Germani Prope Muros Parisienses anno a natali Christi Domini 1508, et in clarissimo Parisiorum Gymnasio ex calcotypa Henrici Stephani officina e regione scholaru[m] decretorum ad secundam & castigatiorem emissionem susceptum anno eiusdem Christi Saluatoris omnium 1513 idibus Iunijs. Illi igitur qui absoluere & absolutu[m] in publicum emittere dedit. Laus et gratiarum actio in saecula saeculorum amen.

Presents five Latin versions: three by St. Jerome presented in parallel columns (Gallicum, the text used by churches in Gaul; Rhomanum, that used in Roman churches; Hebraicum, made directly from the Hebrew) and, after, two more in parallel columns (vetus, a text older than the Jerome text, and conciliatum, a corrected version by Lefèvre).

Part of title within ornamental border with vines and angels and initials H.S.

Text, type ornaments and paragraph marks in black and red. Some Hebrew text.

Includes some woodcut initials.

Includes index.

Binding Note

GAX copy in blind-paneled tawed pigskin over hardwood boards; brass clasps and catches at fore-edge.

Discovery Information

Subject

Bible Psalms—Commentaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ce38828d-ed37-449e-85e6-6dfe7f21ae5f/manifest

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