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(BIBLE IN SYRIAC. DANIEL.) Daniel secundum editionem LXX interpretum ex tetraplis desumptam. Syriac text with Latin translation and notes by Gaetano Bugati. [12], xxxii, 168 pages. 4to, 276x216 mm, 19th-century 1/4 vellum; half-title soiled and spotted, bookseller's stamp on half-title, title, and a few other leaves, contents otherwise generally clean; uncut. Milan: Monastery of St. Ambrose press, 1788
first edition of the text of Daniel from a 7th-century Syro-Hexaplar manuscript discovered by Bugati in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The press of the Cistercian Monastery of St. Ambrose was established in 1778 using types produced by Giovanni Battista Bodoni. Darlow & Moule 8975 note; Fumagalli, Lexicon Typographicum Italiae, pages 220-21.
