CAYET (Pierre Victor Palma). Paradigmata de quatuor linguis - Lot 64

CAYET (Pierre Victor Palma). Paradigmata de quatuor linguis orientalibus praecipuis, arabica, armena, syra, aethiopica. Parisiis, E. typographia Steph. Prevosteau, 1596. In-4, [4]-8 f., pp. 9-196, contemporary boards (copy partly disbound, spine missing, boards very worn, corners dull, slight brown spots). Comparative work by orientalist and philologist Pierre-Victor Palma Cayet, devoted to the declensions, conjugations and morphological structures of four oriental languages: Arabic, Armenian, Syriac and Ethiopian. The text is mainly written in Latin, and also includes extracts printed in each of these four languages. It consists of four unencrypted introductory leaves: a title page with the coat of arms of Pope Clement VIII on the verso, and those of Henri IV opposite, both accompanied by Hebrew dedicatory verses. The following leaves contain texts in Greek, Latin, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Armenian. Then come eight numbered leaves, followed by the main text, paginated 9 to 196. Label of the oriental bookshop of Dondey-Dupré, père et fils. (Adams, I, C1202).