[Iran]. XAVIER, Jérôme. [JAVIER (Jeronimo)]. - Lot 180

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[Iran]. XAVIER, Jérôme. [JAVIER (Jeronimo)]. - Lot 180
[Iran]. XAVIER, Jérôme. [JAVIER (Jeronimo)]. Historia S. Petri persice conscripta, simulque multis modis contaminata... Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex Officina Elseviriana (Elzevir), 1639. Square 8vo, (8)-144 pp., text framed. Contemporary marbled and pebbled fawn calfskin, smooth spine with decoration, red calfskin title label, gilt title, triple gilt fillets framing the covers, red edges, marbled paper endpapers. Title in red and black (upper joint slightly split and some scuffing; top cap worn down; some rubbing on edges and corners, but interior remains fresh; date added in blue pen at the bottom of the title page; a lateral water stain on a few quires). A rare and significant edition printed in Latin and Persian, of the history of Saint Peter, composed in Persian by the Spanish Jesuit priest Jerónimo Javier (1568–1617), nephew of Saint Francis Xavier, who served as a missionary at the court of Emperor Akbar in India, and translated into Latin by Lodewijk de Dieu (1590–1642), an Orientalist and pastor in Leiden, as part of an anti-Jesuit initiative. IRAN. PERSIA. FARSI. Backer-Sommervogel, VIII-1339. Willems 490 and 477.
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