Antoine Vitré (1595–1674) was a French printer of the 17th century. He was the King's printer for Oriental languages (''Linguarum Orientalium Regis Typographus'').''Eastern wisedome and learning: the study of Arabic in seventeenth-century...''

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p.30''ff'' Psautier by Gabriel Sionita 1625

Antoine Vitré printed several works with Arabic font types, using the fonts developed by

François Savary de Brèves François Savary de Brèves (1560, in Melay – 22 April 1628, in Paris) was a French ambassador of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as an Orientalist. Diplomacy In 1585, François Savary de Brèves accompanied to Constantinople his relativ ...

. From 1625, Antoine Vitré used these types to print the '' Paris Polyglot Bible'' printed by Antoine Vitré and edited by Guy Michel Lejay in 1645, which embraces the first printed texts of the

Syriac Syriac may refer to: *Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic *Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region * Syriac alphabet ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Neo-Aramaic languages a ...

Old Testament edited by Gabriel Sionita, the Book of Ruth by Abraham Ecchellensis, also a Maronite, the

Samaritan Pentateuch The Samaritan Torah ( Samaritan Hebrew: , ''Tōrāʾ''), also called the Samaritan Pentateuch, is a text of the Torah written in the Samaritan script and used as sacred scripture by the Samaritans. It dates back to one of the ancient versio ...

and a version by Jean Morin (Morinus).

Printed works

*''Le Broiement des moulins des Rochellois'', 1621 *''Dictionarium latino-arabicum'', by Jean-Baptiste Du Val, 1622 *''Psautier'' in Syriac and Latin, 1625 *''Corpus juris avilis'' by Denys Godefroy, 1628 *''Bible polyglotte'', 1645

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vitre, Antoine French printers 1595 births 1674 deaths