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...''
G. J. Toomer 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 relati ...

. 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

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

edited by Gabriel Sionita, the

Book of Ruth The Book of Ruth (, ''Megillath Ruth'', "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings ( Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible. In most Christian canons it is treated as one of the historical books ...

by Abraham Ecchellensis, also a Maronite, the

Samaritan Pentateuch The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: , ), is the Religious text, sacred scripture of the Samaritans. Written in the Samaritan script, it dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Torah that existe ...

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