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(BIBLE IN LATIN AND HEBREW. NEW TESTAMENT. GOSPELS.) Arba'ah avnei ha-gilyonim me-ha-Torah ha-Hadasha . . . Quatuor Evangelia Novi Testamenti. Vulgate text with Hebrew translation by Giovanni Battista Jona. Title within type ornament border with woodcut vignette; 4 woodcut divisional headpiece portraits of the Evangelists. [28], 395 pages, including half-title. Folio, mid-19th-century 1/2 vellum with worn leather lettering piece and worn leather presentation label on front cover ("La Propaganda Fide al Ministro d'America"); moderate to heavy browning through much of volume. Rome: S. C. Prop. Fidei, 1668
first edition of this translation. Jona (1588-1668) was an apostate Jew born in Tsefat who settled in Rome after a career as a wandering scholar and became reader in Hebrew at the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Darlow & Moule 5136; EJ X, 168-69; Vinograd, Rome 33.
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