ALBA, JUAN de. - Spanish Carthusian exegete, born into a noble Madrid family in the first half of the 16th century. Thoroughly versed in Greek and Hebrew, after receiving his doctorate he entered the charterhouse of Val di Cristo (Valencia) and made his profession there on 2 July 1564. He died, reputed for holiness, on 27 Dec. 1591.

The annals of the Charterhouse of Val di Cristo describe him as « domus nostrae lux et ornamentum ». After his death his works were published at Valencia, by Filippo Mey: Sacrarum Semiasum, Animadversionum, et Electorum ex utriusque Testamentum lectioe Commentarii et Censura, Valencia 1610 (Venice 1631, Mainz 1675); Selectae Adnotationes et Expositiones in varia utriusque Testamentum difficillima loca, Valencia and Venice 1613; Floridus manipulus divinae Scripturae, in quo permulta difficiliora loca ex amplissima Veteris ac Novi Testamentum serie deprompta, catholice exponuntur, Valencia 1615. His Centuria Sacra has remained unpublished (manuscript of the Charterhouse of Val di Cristo).

Bibliography

BIBL.: L. Levasseur, Ephemerides Ordinis Cartusiensis, IV, Montreuil 1892, p. 277 ff.

Gabriele Costa

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