Title
Psalterium harmonicum, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, & Germanicè.
Coverage
Nuremberg:
Publisher
Elias Hutter,
Date
1602.
Subject
Gift of Jon Lindseth.
Description
Elias Hutter (1553–1609), professor of Hebrew, produced various polyglot versions of Biblical texts. In this 1602 book, bound in blind-tooled pigskin, he presents the Psalms in transliterated Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German, with each language requiring separate typefaces. The numerous diacritical marks used in Hebrew and Greek required typefounders to cast fonts containing a large number of sorts.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School