MORIN, JEAN. Masoret ha-Brit. Exercitationes biblicae de Hebraei Graecique textus sinceritate . . . pars prior. [16], 458, [2] pages, including final license/errata leaf. 4to, 228x169 mm, old mottled vellum boards, wormed at top and bottom of spine and along top edge of front cover; contents toned with occasional foxing and heavy browning, dampstain in upper outer corner of opening leaves. Stamps of Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete (1856-1920) as Bishop of Campeche and Bishop of Cuernavaca. Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1633
first edition. all published in this form of a work of biblical criticism in which Morin maintained that the text of Septuagint was more reliable than that of the Hebrew Bible. A revised version in 2 parts was published posthumously in 1660.
