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Tehillim – Basel, 1523 – Rare Miniature Format in Original Leather Binding / Bound with: Selected Biblical Chapters and Prayers in Latin and Greek Translation – Lyon, 1528 - Two books in one volume, a rare Tehillim edition printed in Basel, 1523, and a book comprising a selection of Biblical passages and prayers in several languages, printed in Lyon, 1528: 1. Tehillim, Psalterium Hebraicum. Basel: Johann Froben, 1523. Miniature format. Fine woodcut illustration on title page. Printed right to left. Original leather binding. This edition was edited by Konrad Pellikan and Sebastian Münster, and was printed after the Basel 1517 edition. After Tehillim are printed the Ten Commandments, Latin colophon and woodcut illustration of King David in prayer. Handwritten inscriptions (non-Hebrew) on endpapers and inner binding (including numerical values of Hebrew letters). Some leaves have the verses on the margins numbered in ink (faded). 2. Precationes aliquot celebriores, e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosorum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca, & Latina in Enchiridij formulam redactae, Biblical passages and various prayers in Latin with Hebrew translation, for students of Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1528. Hebrew, Latin and Greek. First edition. Printed from left to right. Includes several Christian prayers and selected Biblical passages (including seven psalms, selections from the Neviim Acharonim and the Ten Commandments in several languages), in Hebrew, Greek and two parallel Latin versions. The text is arranged in four parallel columns across page spreads (from right to left): the vocalized Hebrew text, Santes Pagnini's Latin translation from the Hebrew, the Latin Vulgate and the Greek Septuagint. At the end of the book are selections from the Books of Baruch and Sirach, with the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate in facing columns. Printer's device on verso of last leaf, covering entire page. Two books in one volume. Tehillim: [184] leaves. Selections: [88] leaves. 9.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal tears to several leaves. Minor defect to title page of Book of Tehillim, slightly affecting woodcut. Worming across some leaves of second book, affecting text. Early leather binding. Wear and defects to binding (back side detached). Rare editions of both books. Tehillim recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a copy from the British Library, and the other book recorded based on a copy in a private collection. Neither recorded in NLI catalogue. Joseph Prijs, Basle, no. 13.