Plantavit de la Pause, Jean, bishop of Lodève.

folio (405 x 255mm.), half-title, additional engraved title-page and engraved portrait of the author by I. Baronius, replacement Syriac text pasted to [2 paraphs]7 recto, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, contemporary tan morocco, gilt double fillet border with arms of the author stamped on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, engraved title frayed at foredge, a few pages torn in margins (not affecting text), occasional slight browning, binding rubbed, upper board water-damaged at lower corned

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The town of Lodève, in Languedoc, is on the pilgrimage route to Santiago da Compostela. Jean Plantavit de la Pause (1579-1651), of a Protestant upbringing but with a Catholic mother, studied Hebrew at Nîmes and Rome. He became bishop of Lodève in 1625 and worked hard to improve conditions for the poor, develop the town's infrastructure and repair the cathedral. He wrote several works on Hebrew scriptures, such as Florilegium rabbinicum, which were also published in that town, as well as a history of the bishops of Lodève.