8vo. 366 pp., [18], Arabic text within ruled borders, illustrations, period blind embossed morocco, lightly rubbed, speckled edges, speckled edges, small tear at top margin of back endpaper, Bookplates of Abbot Boyer and the Congregation of the “Oblat de Marie-Immaculée”, small ink stamp on last page, soiling to endpapers, copy otherwise in very good condition, printed at St John the Baptist Monastery, Dayr al-Shuwayr, Lebanon, 1797.

Synopsis

This is the 7th edition of the second book printed at the press of St John the Baptist Monastery, Dayr al-Shuwayr, established by ‘Abdallah al-Zakhir circa 1734. The author of this work was a priest residing in Aleppo. This edition is not listed in Nasrallah, nor in Schnurrer. Camille Aboussouan – who had collected twenty-one impressions from the al- Shuwayr printing – only had the 15th edition of these Psalms, printed in 1899.
Bibliographic references: Nasrallah, 38; Louis Sheikho, 40-41; Silvestre de Sacy, 1842, I, n° 1346 and pages 412-414.