[Rarebooks] FS: Scaliger's (ed.) Book of Revelations in Syriac. Leyden: 1627

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(BIBLE, N. T. REVELATIONS, SYRIAC) Scaliger, Joseph (ed.). [Title in 
Syriac]... ID EST, APOCALYPSIS SANCTI JOHANNIS, Ex Manuscripto Exemplari e 
Bibliotheca Clariss Viri Josephi Scaligeri Deprompto, Edita Charactere Syro, & 
Ebrao, cum Versione Latina, & Notis, Opera & Studio Ludovici de Dieu. Leyden: Ex 
Typographia Elzeviriana. 1627. Sm. 4to. (20),212pp. Text in Syriac and 
Hebrew, footnotes in Greek & Latin, critical commentary in Latin. Title printed 
in red & black within an elaborate woodcut border. Large woodcut printer's 
device on colophon. Cont. vellum, somewhat soiled, hand lettered spine. Old, 
faded water stain throughout upper portions of text.     $1,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Further edited by Ludovici de Dieu, a pupil of Thomas Erpenius, who found 
the MS among those bequeathed to Leyden University by Joseph Scaliger 
(1540-1609). Willems #269. Darlow & Moule #8962, see also p. 1527.

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