Preface dated: die trigesima Iulij 1625; colophon (p. [932]) dated (in Syriac): 7 October 1622.

Edition of 500 copies.

Signatures: pi⁴ [superscript pi]b⁴ a⁶ b⁸ A-4D⁶ 4E⁶(4E6 blank); [superscript pi]b1, 2 signed 'b2', 'b3', 2Q1 signed 'Qq2', 3O3 signed 'oo3'.

Pages [47]-[932] paginated 1-886 in Syriac.

Title-page printed in red and black, with engraved allegorical vignette incorporating the arms of Pope Urban VIII.

Printed in serto types cut by Giacomo Antonio Moro.

Text printed in red and black in double columns.

Full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on p. [46]; woodcut carpet headpieces.

Exposition Le Livre et le Liban jusqu'à 1900, p. 192.

Purchase; Löwendahl; 5 August 1999; 99-168; $2700.00 (Bond fd.); $2650.00 (De Cuevas fd.); $2650.00 (M.R. Seiden fd.); $1000.00 (funds presented by Roderick and Joan Nordell (Bks for Houghton fd.)).

Text in Syriac; title, dedication, and licenses in Latin.

From the library of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, with his gilt arms in center of both covers; and of the Borghese family, with armorial bookplate: Ex libris M.A. Principis Burghesii.

Bound in contemporary crimson morocco, tooled in gilt and blind to a panel design, edges gilt and gauffered; wanting the final blank leaf; in case.