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ONE OF SIXTEEN ON VELLUM (BIBLE IN GREEK. OLD TESTAMENT. PSALMS.) Psalterium Graecum ex Codice Ms. Alexandrino. xii, [32] leaves, 18 pages. printed on vellum. Folio, 339x280 mm, contemporary dark blue morocco elegantly gilt with yellow silk doublures and endleaves by Charles Lewis; contents wrinkled, light stain on front flyleaf. Syston Park bookplate and monogram booklabel of Sir John Hayford Thorold; armorial bookplate of William Henry Smith; morocco booklabel of Estelle Doheny. London: Richard Taylor et al., 1812
one of only sixteen copies on vellum of a sumptuously produced greek psalter, edited by Henry Hervey Baber, keeper of printed books at the British Museum. This edition is based on the text of the Codex Alexandrinus, the 5th-century manuscript of the Septuagint and New Testament presented by the Patriarch of Constantinople to King James I in 1628 and now in the British Museum; it was printed with specially designed type emulating the uncial script of the Codex. Darlow & Moule 4789; Praet (Bibliothèque du Roi) I, 13.
