[CALVIN (Jean)]. - Lot 224

[CALVIN (Jean)]. Les Pseaumes de David, traduicts selon la verité hebraique, avec annotations tres utiles, par Loys Budé, avec préface de Jehan Calvin, touchant l'utilité des Pseaumes et de la traduction présente. Geneva, Jean Crespin, 1551. Small in-8, brown morocco, cold-stamped interlacing decoration on covers, ribbed spine, red edges (Binding of the period). First edition of this translation of the Psalms, preceded by an interesting preface by Jean Calvin, which he had commissioned from Louis Budé. Louis Budé, sieur de La Motte, was the sixth son of the humanist Guillaume Budé. Unlike his father, he embraced the Protestant Reformation and retired with several of his brothers to Geneva, where he died in May 1551, shortly before the publication of this work. A first-issue copy, containing the preface by Calvin, whose name is printed on the title. An interesting interleaved copy on white paper, with numerous 16th-century handwritten annotations by several hands, in a curious contemporary interlaced binding. From the libraries of Stroehlin (1912, III, no. 1283), with bookplate, and Mme Théodore Belin (1936, I, no. 111). Historian of Protestantism at the University of Geneva, Ernest Stroehlin (1844-1907) owned one of the richest libraries ever assembled on the subject. Binding restored, hinges cracked and worn, corners dulled, foxing and wetness. Bibliography: Gilmont, 51/4a - Delaveau & Hillard, n°2390 - Rodolphe Peter, "Calvin et la traduction des Psaumes de Louis Budé", Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, n°2/3, 1962, pp. 175-192. Key words : judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba