Bible - Psalms; Campensis, Joannis [Jacque Cappel (Capellus)].

ENCHIRIDION PSALMORUM...

      Seb[astian] Gryphius, Lugduni (Lyon): 1536. Full Title: "ENCHIRIDION PSALMORUM. Eorundem ex veritate Hebraica versionem, ac Ioannis Campensis e regione paraphrasim, sic ut versus versui respondeat, complectens. Concionem praeterea Salomonis Ecclesiastae, per eundem Campensem ex Hebraico [paraphrasichos] traductam." ff. 320 leaves. Latin text in parallel columns, with some Hebrew and Greek. 16mo. 75 x 105 mm. Almost disbound, but with old (1799-1801) paper wraps from a ledger. A worthwhile candidate for a nice binding. A rare Paraphrase of the Hebraic Psalms by the important Flemish humanist Jean de Campen [Jacques Cappel or Capellus] (1490-1538). Cappel followed closely the ideas of Elias Levita (or Eliaha Bokhar), a Jewish teacher of Hebrew in Renaissance Italy, who was an extremely influential philologist, grammarian, and lexicographer, who also taught Sebastian Munster. He studied further in Germany and Poland, and consulted the most learned Rabbis. This work, was first published in 1532, and met great success. It was translated into French (1534) by Etienne Dolet, and also into Flemish, German and English. This 1536 edition is quite scarce. It's small size meant that it could be carried about and be readilly consulted - thus most copies were "read to death". Apparently it is not in Adams; nor BMC-French STC. MOUNT BX5 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!