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1566U07<p><strong>Summary</strong></p><p>Quarto 8.5" x 6.25". An attractive and profusely illustrated quarto Tyndale New Testament. This is the third edition of Jugge's revision and the final Tyndale New Testament. A scarce book in a beautifully executed period-appropriate binding with nearly one hundred woodcuts.</p><p><strong>Description </strong></p><p>General title page in expert color facsimile. Calendar printed in red and black. Eighty-three woodcuts in ninety-four occurrences including a map of Palestine and a map of St. Paul's journeys. Text in single column black letter type in paragraph format. This handsomely printed revision by Jugge is lavishly illustrated combining the woodblocks from the two previous editions with the blocks by Virgil Solis that were later used in the Bishops' Bible. The large title-page portrait features young king Edward who awarded Jugge a license to print the first edition. First chapter woodcut initials cover eleven lines of text. Divisional printed title to the Epistles of St. Paul and Revelation. Text presented with 38 lines to the full column. Jugge's revision served as an effort to bring the English translation closer to the original Greek. The last of the over forty editions of Tyndale's New Testament with the headlines in Roman type.</p><p><strong>Collation</strong></p><p>flueron8 -fleuron1-3 par10 A-Y8 -S1 Aa-Pp8 Qq4. 312 ff. <strong><em><u>Lacks</u></em></strong> 4 leaves altogether title page dedication first leaf of calendar John 21 – <strong>all provided in color facsimile</strong>.</p><p><strong>Binding</strong></p><p>Beautifully rebound in black calf. Covers with central gilt arabesque design featuring flowers and swirls surrounded by small circles within a triple paneled border with corner fleurons. Spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to compartments. Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition</strong></p><p>par4 lower marginal repair; E5 marginal repair; M8 N1 marginal loss with a few missing letters in facsimile; trimmed and cropped to fore-edge reducing marginal notes and cross references; final leaf of Tables stained; infrequent light toning occasional staining but overall clean and crisp.</p><p><strong>Provenance </strong></p><p>par4 with "Edmund Barber" to top of page. The previous owner reports that the Bible fell out of a wall of a cottage during demolition in the 1960s somewhere in West London.</p><p><strong>Note </strong></p><p>William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament was the first to be printed in the English language. The father of the modern English language and the father of the English Reformation Tyndale was spurred on by the desire to "cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scripture" than the clergy of the day. He would be killed for this cause in 1536. The translation was bitterly opposed by Bloody Mary and many copies of Tyndale's Bibles were burned. Research has shown that at least eighty percent of the King James Version is Tyndale's.</p><p><strong>Scarcity</strong></p><p>USTC records 21 copies in holding with most copies lacking the title page. RBH records only 1 copy at auction since 1936 with that copy lacking over 200 leaves.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Herbert 121; STC 2873; ESTC S122998; USTC 506525; Luborsky 2873; PMM 58 1526 edition.</p> Richard Jugge hardcover
158068068London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie 1580. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BARKER ChristopherHERREY Robert F. A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances"<br> <br> BIBLE IN ENGLISH. BARKER Christopher. HERREY Robert F. compiler. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue Caldean Greeke and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables for breuitie sake is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. 1580.<br> <br> First Edition. One of two issues of the same year priority unknown. Our year based upon the issue points as shown by the British Library: "with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the" ESTC S125409. Quarto 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 236 x 185 mm. 92 leaves. A8-L8 M4. With preface signed "Thine in the Lord Robart F. Herrey" and dated "xxii of December. An. Domini. 1578." We could find no other complete copies of this first edition of "Concordance" at auction in the past 50 years.<br> <br> Although this comes separately The Herrey "Concordance" is generally found issued with a Barker Geneva Bible starting with the date 1580. There were several printings of this "Concordance" starting in 1580 and going into the next decade however only the present copy and one other printing were issued with the two versions of the Barker Bibles of 1580. Present copy with Signatures: A-L M and with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the". This version was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 123. Another version of the same year with Signatures: A-C D-V was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 124.<br> <br> Bound separately in modern full brown morocco. Covers ruled in triple blind and with a central "Cross" devise in blind on both covers. Newer endpapers. Some occasional ink small hand marginalia. Edges of leaves a bit frayed. A stain to bottom margin of leaves H2-H3. A paper repair to bottom margin of final leaf M4 not affecting text. Overall very good.<br> <br> According to Herbert and Darlow & Moule " The Concordances which form an essential part of the volume of the Bible were compiled by Robart F. Herrey who is identified with Robert Harrison the Norfolk Brownist 9d. 1585"<br> <br> Darlow & Moule 123. ESTC S125409 . Herbert 165. STC 13228b.1 .<br> <br> HBS 68068.<br> <br> $2850. Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie unknown
1568ST20921Lutetia Paris: Robert Estienne II 1568. 128 x 87 mm. 5 x 3 1/2". Two volumes. <br/> LOVELY CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO GILT covers with large central azured arabesque surrounded by curling vines with azured leaves smooth spines with similar vines head and foot of spines with egg-and-dart roll similar to one used by Claude de Picques second volume with faint blind lettering to spine all edges gilt perhaps with some minor early restorations but if so then done with such care as to preclude certainty. Housed in modern suede-lined calf-backed clamshell boxes with magnetic closures. Printer's device on titles and final page decorative initials and headpieces. Front pastedown of volume I with ex-libris of Georgios Arvanitidis. Renouard 171:1; Schreiber 239; Darlow & Moule 4633; Adams B-1670. See: Verron "Les Reliures de l'Entrée de Charles IX à Paris 1572 . . . réalisées par Claude Picques" in Bulletin du Bibliophile 2014 no. 2 pp. 282-98. Just a touch of rubbing to extremities front hinge of second volume open but everything quite tight text with occasional mild browning small spots trivial smudges or tiny worm trails but A BEAUTIFUL COPY clean and fresh internally and the bindings tight and lustrous with very bright gilt<br/> <br/> With exceptional visual appeal these two precious volumes shining with gilt and containing the Greek New Testament from the renowned Estienne family of printers are of special interest because of their typography their bindings and their provenance. With the expressed goal of printing Greek texts from manuscripts in the royal library at Fontainebleau François I established the post of royal printer in Greek in 1539 appointed Robert Estienne I 1503-59 to the position in 1542 and commissioned the renowned Claude Garamond to cut a new Greek font for this project. To design the type the King called on his own celebrated calligrapher Angelo Vergecio who produced in collaboration with Garamond three different sizes of what came to be called the Royal Types or "grecs du roi." According to Schreiber "These cursive Greek types are universally acknowledged as the finest ever cut." In 1548 and 1549 Robert Estienne issued the press' first Greek Testament known as the "O mirificam" edition for the opening of the dedication to the king in 16mo or "pocket" format using the smaller font of Garamond's "grecs du roi." In 1550 Robert a Protestant moved to Geneva while his son Robert II 1533-70 a Catholic remained in Paris and took over as the royal printer in Greek. Our 1568 Testament--the only one issued by the son--is a reprinting of the "O mirificam" edition but expanded with the critical apparatus from the 1550 folio edition issued by the father. Schreiber notes that our edition is interesting from a typographical point of view as it contains an even more minute version of the already small grecs du roi type for the Table of Chapters. The exceptionally pretty volumes are done in the style of royal binder Claude Picques fl. 1539-78 and employ a decorative roll very similar to one that appears on the spine of the vellum bindings Picques did for "L'Entrée de Charles IX à Paris" 1572. Our volumes once graced the library of Constantinople collector Georgios Arvanitidis 1876-1953 whose library included a number of Estienne Greek editions. They were later in the distinguished library of Frederick B. Adams 1910-2001 director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1948-69 and then president of the prestigious Association Internationale de Bibliophilie from 1974-83. And they were featured in the celebrated 1929 Gumuchian catalogue of 398 historically exceptional bindings as item #71. Robert Estienne II unknown
1597ST19351Frankfurt: heirs of Andreas Wechel Claude de Marne & Johann Aubry 1597. Fourth Complete Greek Bible printed in Germany. 388 x 258 mm. 15 1/8 x 10 1/8". 4 p.l. 1 blank leaf attached to backing of folio :4 1098 2 pp. <br/> VERY STATELY 17TH CENTURY RED MOROCCO covers with mitered gilt frame gilt supralibros of Baderon de Maussac Olivier 745 at center raised bands spine panels with gilt flower gilt lettering all edges gilt. Printer's Pegasus device on title and final page. Front flyleaf with ink inscription recording the purchase on 24 February 1680 at Toulouse for 24 livres. Darlow & Moule 4653; VD16 B 2578; Adams B-979. ◆Three minute dents to front board a hint of wear to bands and corners isolated faint foxing blank recto of frontispiece leaf and blank verso of final leaf with faint blue shadow from endpapers but all of these quite trivial and otherwise A BEAUTIFUL COPY--fresh clean and bright internally with very wide margins and strong impressions of the plates and in a lustrous binding showing few signs of use.<br/> <br/> This handsome and remarkably well-preserved tall folio Greek Bible from a distinguished German printing firm comes in a shiny armorial binding with aristocratic French provenance. Darlow & Moule assigns the editing of this issue to Franciscus Junius François du Jon or Friedrich Sylburg noting that the Old Testament "is based on the Basel edition of 1545 . . . with correction from the Complutensian text and useful notes." The New Testament follows the text of Robert Estienne's 1568-69 edition. The Wechel family had a long tradition of humanist printing with an emphasis on Greek texts beginning with the press of Christian Wechel fl. 1520-54 in Paris and continuing after his son Andreas d. 1581 fled to Frankfurt to escape the persecution of Protestants in France. Andreas' descendants carried on the business through the first quarter of the 17th century. Olivier's "Reliures Armoriées Françaises" 1926 pl. 745 offers three possible attributions for the supralibros here all from the Languedoc region during the first half of the 17th century: Jean de Baderson; Jacques de Baderon seigneur de Maussac a member of the Parlement of Toulouse; and Jacques de Baderon de Maussac seigneur de Montagnac et de Corneillan and commandant of the city of Collioure. The inscription on the flyleaf here indicating that the book was purchased in Toulouse perhaps supports the case for the member of the Parlement in that city. The 24 livres paid for our imposing volume in 1680 would have represented as much as two months' wages for a worker in the region of its purchase. heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude de Marne & Johann Aubry unknown
1582P02<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Rhemes and Doway: John Fogny and Laurence Kellam 1582 and 1610. 4to 8.25 x 6.25 in. A complete Douai Old Testament and Rheims New Testament Bible in contemporary calf. The first edition of the Roman Catholic Bible in English in near-matching bindings with arguments and annotations.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Text in single column Roman font with 41 lines to the column. Annotations follow each chapter of Bible text. NT: Fifteen preliminary leaves with title within narrow frame 1582. OT Volume 1: Ten preliminary leaves with title within narrow frame 1609. OT Volume 2: Title within narrow frame 1610 followed by <em>Approbatio </em>on verso. Ends with <em>An historical table of the times… of the Old Testament</em> 24 pp. <em>A particular table of the most principal thinges… </em>27 pp. <em>Censura</em> <em>Errata</em>.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3Z4 4A-4Z4 5A-5D4 5E2 NT; cross6 crosscross4 A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3Z4 4A-4Z4 5A-5Z4 6A-6S4 6T6 OT Volume 1; A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3Z4 4A-4Z4 5A-5Z4 6A-6W4 OT Volume 2. Bible text complete. Doway volume 1 <u>lacks</u> title page and volume 2 <u>lacks</u> six final leaves of <em>A Particular Table</em>.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rhemes New Testament bound in Cambridge paneled boards rebacked somewhat rubbed with corners worn. Spine with five raised blind-lined bands and a gilt-lined morocco label with the words "New Testament" in gilt and a date of "1582" to foot of spine. The Old Testament volumes bound in brown calf rebacked with matching spines corners worn. Spines with four blind-lined raised bands and red morocco labels with "Holie Bible" in gilt and "I" and "II" in compartment below in gilt. Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Rhemes New Testament: Title page 1582 with "Richard Gibson his book 1650" next to imprinted date; occasional staining some thumbsoiling heavier soiling to the first few leaves of <em>Tables</em>; f2-3 marginal loss to fore-edge; Nnn-Ooo marginal fore-edge stain impacting side notes and a few words of text on Ooo2-3. Doway volume 1: <u>lacks</u> title page; A1-3 stain to gutter; some underlining a few words on every other page; B-Kk light stain to upper margin; Iiii-Kkkk and Oooo-Pppp light stain to bottom fifth of page; Xxxxx-Zzzzz and Hhhhhh-Rrrrrr stain to upper fourth of page; Tttttt4 final leaf loss of bottom fifth of page no text loss. Doway volume 2: A1 title page triangular piece torn from foot reducing border and loss of printed date; title also with ex-libris stamp and taped tear; Aa-Cc stain to bottom margin and fore-edge occasionally entering a few words of text; Oo-Qq light minimal lower marginal stain; Rr1-4 remargined without loss; Tt3-Uu4 stain to 25 percent of page; Yy1-4 reinforced without loss; 10 percent loss to final extant leaf with ex-libris stamp; <u>lacks </u>6U3-6W4 final six leaves of Tables.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> The <em>editio princeps</em> of the Catholic Bible in English translated primarily by Gregory Martin from the Vulgate. A great number of English Bibles and English versions were available by the end of the sixteenth century yet none were acceptable to Catholics. With priests hard to come by and many fellow Englishmen who knew their Bible well a need arose for an English Bible that would be acceptable to Rome and allow adherents to refute the errors around them. Gregory Martin an Oxford scholar began the work in 1578 and it would take him four years. He translated about two chapters per day from Latin into English leaving a heavily Latinized translation. His work was submitted for review to William Allen the first president of the college at Douai. The New Testament was printed in 1582 with the Old Testament delayed by financial reasons until 1609-10. The work was used by the translators of the King James Bible who borrowed quite freely from the Rheims New Testament.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 177; STC 2884; ESTC S102419 Rhemes Herbert 300; STC 2207; ESTC S101944 Doway; PMM 114; Daniell David. "The Rheims New Testament 1582." <em>The Bible in English: Its History and Influence</em> Yale University Press New Haven CT 2005.</p> John Fogny, Rhemes [and] Laurence Kellam, Doway hardcover
1582015960London: Christopher Barker 1582. Breeches Bible. STC 2nd ed. / 2133; Herbert 173. Book measures 27x19.cm. Collation 41-360 762115111pp. Lacking qii & iii which are the 2pp following the title 1-360 complete 1-76 complete. Pages 17/1825 of this secition lacking some text 1-115111 this section complete with a few torn pages. Lacking half the map at page 331 and the second folding map defective. Bound with a incomplete copy of The Whole book of Psalmes printed in 1583 which ends at page 88. Generally the New Testament is a near complete copy with tihe title page and only lacking a few pages. Bound in modern full panelled leather with raised bands leather title label. Binding in very good clean condition. Internally generally the text in in good clean condition. A nice clean near complete copy bound with a defect copy of the psalmes. . Full Leather. Very Good. Quarto. Christopher Barker Hardcover
1585372230London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1585. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. Nineteenth century dark purple morocco covers blocked in blind marbled endpapers red edges. Repairs to voids in preliminaries and several leaves in the beginning of Genesis general title supplied and mounted restoration to the terminal five leaves with some losses else scattered minor staining and edge tears. Scattered early marginalia including an early female ownership signature on page 536. Bookseller's label on front endpaper J. Whereat Weston Super Mare. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. The Bishops' version the translation overseen by Matthew Parker. ESTC S156; Herbert 188; STC 2143. Provenance: General Theological Seminary bookplates Deputies of Christopher Barker unknown
1574P37<p><strong>Summary:</strong> London: Richard Jugge 1574. Folio 13 x 9 in. The third folio edition of the Bishops' Bible with a fold-out map. Text in attractive black letter and a good number of woodcuts and four titles.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> 26 out of 28 preliminary leaves present with Calendar printed in red and black. Lacks general title but all four other title pages are present. Printed in smaller type than the 1572 folio but still contains woodcuts as chapter summaries Genesis Exodus Numbers Matthew Mark Luke John etc. and an additional full-page composite cut before Revelation and a few maps. First chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> A-M8 N6 Gen-Deut; Aa-Ss8 Tt6 Joshua-Job; Aaa-Sss8 T6 V6 Psalms-Mal; Aaaa-Mmmm8 Nnnn6 Apocrypha; A-Q8 R6 New Testament. <u>Lacks</u> general title and R4-R6 last three leaves. With two page fold-out map of <em>New Map of Places Mentioned in the New Testament </em>bound at front but <u>lacks</u> the two page fold-out maps in Exodus and Joshua.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebacked in marbled calf with old marbled sheep covers laid on. Front cover with some surface loss. Spine with four raised bands and a red gilt-lined label with the words "Bishop's Bible." Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Generally a very good copy with marginal notes occasionally shaved; Occasional staining to the top and bottom margins e.g. D3-D6 K6-K8; some browning; Aii Matt 1 piece torn from inner column with loss of a few verses; B4 closed tear to outer edge just touching the text and through several notes; C1 long closed tear through most of the inner portion of the leaf without loss; G7 closed tear to bottom of inner column through 18 lines; M7 closed tear with loss to the first several lines of text to both columns; ex-library bookplate of Zion Research Library on front pastedown.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> The third folio edition of the Bishops' Bible. Printed in smaller type with 63 lines to the column. After the first folio which contains over 120 woodcuts the number of woodcuts in the Bishops' Bible gradually decreases. The third folio still contains a good number of cuts and the fold-out map at the beginning of this copy is quite nice.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 137; STC 2109; ESTC S107032; Luborsky & Ingram 2109.</p> Richard Jugge hardcover
1591P36<p><strong>Summary:</strong> London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1591. Pulpit Folio 15 x 9.75 in. A later pulpit folio Bishops' Bible with attractive black letter text. Textually complete with a portion of the general title the New Testament title and in very good condition.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Includes nine preliminary leaves with the <em>Kalendar</em> ending on the full-page Adam and Eve engraving. The general title page 1591 in red and black is laid down. Text is in two column black letter. The New Testament title page 1591 within architectural border. First chapter initials and decorated head and tailpieces throughout.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Zzz6 Aaaa-Zzzz6 Aaaaa6 Bbbbb4. Complete.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebound in modern brown calf with original covers laid down. Covers within double blind-rolled border and fleurons at corners. Spine with six blind-lined bands and blind rolls to compartments. A dark red gilt-lined label with the words "Holy Bible 1591" in gilt. Plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> The text is generally in very good condition with good margins throughout. Occasional staining mostly marginal and a few minor marginal tears. General title is missing 60 percent with the bottom portion mounted an inserted on the verso of a leaf before the prelims. Below the title is a slip of paper with "William Ingham and Richard Weles bought this booke." On the front free endpaper is a large inscription 'John Smeeton His Book" and at the top are records of the births of five children 1658-1661. On the recto of the following leaf is a bookplate that reads "in the Savoy John Smeeton August 20 1675."; inserted after the title are two slightly defective leaves of the <em>Proper Lessons</em> in manuscript; Prelims include the<em> Almanacke</em> and <em>Kalenda</em>r about one third of June/July is missing and the whole is a bit worn; the final preliminary leaf with some paper repairs to the top edge reducing the border of the Adam and Eve engraving; bottom corner of Genesis 2 is torn away and replaced in manuscript; G1-N3 Ex-Num worm hole to the top inner margin not impacting text; Kk4 paper flaw removing some letters of sidenote on verso; Tt3 paper flaw without loss; Tt6 Bbb2 Yyyy3 with closed tears into the text; Uu1 piece torn from margin just touching the text and removing a couple of word from the sidenote; Xx2-Zz6 slight marginal worming; Qqqq6 possibly a paper flaw with old repair slightly obscuring some letters of text; final leaf bound slightly askew with some lower marginal repair.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong> One of a series of large folio black letter Bishops' Bibles. These Bibles were often used in parish churches but people of means bought them for private us as was apparently the case in this copy. The folio Bishops' Bibles that have survived are frequently imperfect as is the copy described in Herbert's catalog.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> Herbert 209; STC 2156; ESTC S121300.</p> Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
1584096038London: Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Anno 1584. 1584. Bishops Bible. ESTC Citation No. S674. STC 2nd ed. 2141. Collation signature complete a1-c8 a1-cccc8 in 8s dddd4 Psalmes a6-l6m4. one signature in 7 but complete 1 full page plate Adam & Eve text map 1 full page map engraved titles. Book measures 11 x 8 inches. A1 title page chipped lacking section of margin in places with loss of engraved area title laid down dd6cc6bbb2ddd2vvv8yyy7zzz1 these pages have short tears mainly single tear with very minor loss of text or the odd letter 8 other pages have closed short tears. Occasional annotations in a early hand some margins trimmed with loss of lettering some other minor defects. Bound in recent full calf panelled boards raised bands leather title label full gilt edges new endpapers. Internally some staining to Psalmes. Pages in very good condition throughout. A very nice copy. Very Good Plus. Large 8vo. Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, Anno 1584. hardcover
157752602<p>London imprinted by R. Jugge Printer to the Queenes Majestie cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis1577. Bishops' version 1577 The Bishops' Bible also known as the "Treacle Bible" because of its translation of Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there not treacle at Gilead". IMPERFECT: LACKS FIRST TITLE PAGE PREFACE and 2 PAGES from THE WHOLE SCRIPTURE. First page is a Prayer then 3 pages of The Whole Scripture followed by 6 leaves of Kalendar then The Order Howe 1 page then 2 pages Proper Lessons then 3 pages Certain Godly and Comfortable Prayers then 24 leaves of The Book of Common Prayer leaves: 35 1-103 1 - blank; title to 2nd part 106-252; title to 3rd part 254-500 581-592 the jump in pagination 500-581 is the same in all copies nothing is missing; New Testament leaves: title 2-127 last page with colophon and publisher's device. Psalmes: title pages: 4 1-99 page 99 misplaced in final section; Final section Veni Creator Song of 3 Children etc: 14 of 16 lacks A1. Small 4to bound in eights approximately 205 x 155 mm 8 x 6 inches slightly cropped affecting some running titles dated title page to New Testament and Psalms divisional titles to the second and third parts of the Old Testament and to the Apocrypha. 1 half page woodcut of the Garden of Eden 1 full page of the 12 tribes and the Tabernacle 3 maps in the text and 2 full page maps historiated initials pages ruled in red collation: pi6 -pi1-3 and pi6 6 2 misnumbered 3 4 A-C8 A-Z8 Aa-Hh8 Ii4 KK-Zz8 Aaa-Sss8 Ttt4; A-P8 Q6. The NT is followed by The Metric Psalms printed in London by John Daye 1577. Bound in old panelled calf rebacked with raised bands gilt title and date boards cornered in decorated brass with a single boss small central decorated brass lozenge with single boss to both boards probably the covers with brass bosses are as issued at the time decorated brass clasps not matching and partially renewed at some time ornate gilt monogram to both boards: "C C" early endpapers retained. Inner paper hinges strengthened neatly with paper strip ex Cheshunt College library with armorial bookplate on front pastedown stamped "Withdrawn" ink name with date 1748 on front endpaper faint inscription on 2nd blank endpaper 2 small rusty marks with hole at centre on first 2 endpapers caused by nails in clasps similar smaller marks on rear endpapers first page of prelims pi4 - A prayer is dusty and stamped in red at top and bottom with the college name small brown stain on pages 141 verso -142 recto no loss of legibility another on 255 verso - 256 obscuring a few words large pale brown stain on 176 verso no loss small piece missing from lower corner of Nnn1 with loss of a few words a large lower corner missing from D6 135 x 75 mm 5" x 3" that is St. Luke Chapters IV and V worming to lower margins of NT leaves 21-39 sometimes touching bottom line of text loss of 2 words on both sides of leaves 27 and 29 handling signs to NT margins large pale water stain to NT leaves 23 to 105 small closed tear to lower corner of NT leaf 78 no loss outer margins of final 2 leaves tatty no loss of text. A few other minor faults. A good copy of an Elizabethan Bible. Last page of Revelation: Imprinted at London by Richard Jugge Printer to the Queenes Majestie cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis. Jugge's device with the motto: Omne Bonu Supernae below. Darlow and Moule Historical Catalogue of Holy Scripture Volume 1 pages 85-86 No.112; A.S. Herbert The English Bible 1525-1961 page 85 No.150. ESTC No: S5108. Old Bibles by J.R. Dore page 262 states: "This Bible is also particularly interesting from its being the last Bible ever printed by Richard Jugge. This makes the words placed over his printer's device on the last page so significant cogita mori." He died in the same year 1577. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, imprinted by R. Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Majestie, cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis,1577. hardcover
1501mon0000068889Cambridge : University Press 1915-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Previous owners name inscribed inside. Cambridge : University Press hardcover
1585456London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. ¶3 - ¶8 A - E 8 leaf quires F 5 leaves. Lacks title page and following leaf. Scattered stains and soiling mostly at margins. Small darker stain at top margin. Loss to lower forecorner of B8 affecting about 12 lines of text. Kalendar printed in red and black. Colophon at end with ownership inscription of John Purkiss dated February 1 1768. Griffiths 1585/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible Geneva/Breeches version. London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. A-3H 8 leaf quires 3I 2 leaf quire 4 leaves 3K-3Y 8 leaf quires 3Z 10 leaf quire. Printed in two column black letter type. Occasional small closed tear with no loss and a few marginal notes shaved esp. 3O. Lacks preliminaries and 3P4&5. 18th Century notes regarding Purkiss family on verso of NT title page. Herbert 187 following Herbert 165 and Herbert 170. Bound with: Herrey Robert F. Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1585. A-L 8 leaf quires M 4 leaf quire. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English meetre. London: Assignes of Richard Day 1585. A - G 8 leaf quires lacking G6 - G8. Last few pages tatty with slight loss of text. ESTCS90640. Bound in dark brown paneled calf with recent sympathetic rebacking with four raised bands offset by gilt rules. An excellent copy of the 1552 English BCP and Geneva Bible. Both standards for many American colonists. Printed by Christopher Barker unknown
15866176Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queene's Maiestie. 1586. 1586 8vo. Collates A - Xxxviii lacking Fffviii blank. Apocrypha ends at Fffvi followed by A perfite supputation of the yeeres and times from Adam unto Christ. NT begins at Gggi and the Second Table ends at Xxxviii. Unrecorded by ESTC and a completely different setting to Herbert 191 which ends at Qqq8. Despite Herbert stating that BL has a copy of Herbert 191 neither ESTC nor WorldCat can locate a copy. BOUND WITH The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Metre . At London Printed by John Daye dwelling ouer Alders-gate. 1584. ESTC S116211 Gv lacking a blank corner Gvi defective at the foot and lacking Gvii-viii. New period style calf panelled in blind. Spine with raised bands. Old endpapers preserved with an ornate full page calligraphic inscription Ann Kent Her Book April ye 27th An: Dni: 1696. Early notes on the title verso. Some headlines and signatures shaved by a previous binder but a clean sound copy of a rare octavo Geneva Bible. Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queene's Maiestie. hardcover
1599146373London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599; London: Robert Barker 1636. Rare "Breeches" Bible printed by Christopher Barker with the fictitious 1599 publication date. "There are many editions bearing this date which while agreeing closely are yet distinct . the phenomena of the various editions described under the year 1599 and the very similar edition of 1633 constitute one of the most curious problems in the bibliography of the English Bible." Genesis 3:7 with "Then the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed figge tree leaves together and made themselves breeches." Octavo two volumes bound into one in full paneled calf hand-embossing to the front and rear panels original silk and cloth ribbons woodcut title pages and initials. Bound with The Booke of Common Prayer and the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England printed by Robert Barker in 1636. In good condition rebacked contemporary names and inscriptions to several pages. A very rare and desirable example of the Breeches Bible. Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553 “publication of the English Bible ceased in England. Many Protestants who fled to the Continent were attracted to Calvin’s Geneva. Among these exiles were eminent English Bible scholars who began work on a new translation†The Bible: 100 Landmarks 62. First published in 1560 the Geneva Bible—often called the “Breeches Bible†for its unique rendering of Genesis 3:7—was “more scholarly than any previous translation… It achieved immediate popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… The Geneva Version included prefaces maps and tables; and for the first time in an English Bible the verses were divided and numbered… It has been more properly called the Elizabethan family Bible since it was this version which was the first to enter the English home†PMM 83. “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan element in England. It was read by Shakespeare Bunyan and the soldiers of the Civil War and is thus of cardinal importance for its influence on the English language literature and thought†Great Books and Book Collectors 105-8. Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
1569Q42<p>Geneva: John Crispin 1569. 4to 8.125 x 5.75 in. The scarce <em>second edition</em> of the Geneva Bible in quarto. Printed in Geneva in Roman font with illustrations double-page maps and provenance of a famous paper maker.</p><p><strong>Description</strong></p><p>Lacks the first preliminary leaf <em>Calendar Historical</em> and begins with <em>To The Reader </em>1 p. <em>Of the Golden Nombre</em>… etc.3 pp. <em>A Supputation of the years </em>1 p. <em>A Table of the Cycle of the Sunne </em>1 p. <em>Kalendar </em>with a small woodcut at the beginning of each month 6 pp. <em>Fairies in France and elsewhere </em>1 p. The printed title page 1569 with decorative headpiece and Crispin's device. Text in two column Roman type with the complete set of illustrations and maps in the text. Bound with four of the additional double-page maps including the Wanderings of the Israelites Nu 33 Ezekiel's Temple Ez 48 Description of the Holie Land before NT title and the Description of the Countreis and Places before Acts. Also bound with the Degrees of Consanguinitie Lev 18 and the map at Joshua provided in facsimile. Printed New Testament title page 1568 with printer's device. Ends with the <em>Table</em> and the <em>Order of the Years</em> 1 p. First chapter woodcut initials head and tailpieces.</p><p><strong>Collation</strong></p><p>par.8 -par1 4 a-c4 d-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Gg8 Old Testament n3-8 Table of Names Aa-Bb4 Cc-Ss8 Tt3 New Testament. <em>Lacks</em> Apocrypha Psalter and first preliminary leaf.</p><p><strong>Binding</strong></p><p>Newly rebound in speckled brown calf. Elaborate blind tooling and rolls to boards within concentric frames. Spine with four raised bands and extensive blind tooling to compartments. One red morocco label with gilt-rules and the words "Holy Bible" letter in gilt and a date of 1569 letter in gilt to foot. New plain endpapers.</p><p><strong>Condition</strong></p><p>Overall a clean text; trimmed close with infrequent loss to first letter of the marginal notes; a-c small stain to lower gutter; Q7-R1 old tape repair with a couple of lines of text replaced in manuscript; T2-3 upper dark marginal stain impacting three lines of text; final map with a tear along fold; Tt1-3 last few leaves of tables with tape repairs to margins.</p><p><strong>Provenance</strong></p><p>Bookplate of James Whatman 1702-1759 on front pastedown with his signature on first blank leaf. On the next four blank pp. at the front Whatman described the history of the Geneva version in a neat hand likely on his own wove paper. Whatman produced high-quality white paper in the 1740s that was used by state papers and also used in printed books. He was the first paper maker in Europe to make wove paper.</p><p><strong>Note</strong></p><p>The second edition of the Geneva version printed in Geneva. The second edition is a smaller book than the 1560 first edition. The Apocrypha was removed from this copy likely by a zealous Puritan. The Psalter was an integral part of this edition and is lacking from this copy but four of the five maps are present.</p><p><strong>Scarcity</strong></p><p>RBH records only three copies at auction since 1910. OCLC shows only six copies in institutions.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Herbert 130; ODNB 40776; STC 2106; not in USTC.</p> John Crispin hardcover
15998636Imprinted at London By the Deputies of Christopher Barker 1599. 1599 4to. 4 434 8 441-554 fols. Black letter text in two columns with sidenotes in a roman font. The text is the Geneva version with Tomson's NT but Junius's Revelation. Contemporary blind panelled calf binding over bevelled oak boards with brass corners and centre pieces. Fittings for clasps remain but the clasps themselves are lacking. Rebacked in the nineteenth century with the original spine re-laid and a title label and date added to the spine. The joints now have short splits. Signatures A and B in the OT are misbound but complete and there are similar misbound leaves in the NT Paul's Epistles. STC 2173. Herbert 247. BOUND WITH Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances as issued and with a fragment of The Whole Booke of Psalmes . Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Daye 1598 ends at Psalm xxxiii. There are old paper tape repairs in places to strengthen edges and clear evidence of centuries of use throughout. The 19th century endpapers are inscribed Alfred Holwell The Gift of his Parents 1874 which probably dates the rebacking. There are also two pages of family tree of the Holwell family. The verso of the NT title page has 18th century records of the Raven Norfolk family. A complete and unsophisticated copy of the the actual 1599 printing. Imprinted at London By the Deputies of Christopher Barker hardcover
15668596At Rouen. By C. Hamillon at the coste and charges of Richd Carmarden. Cum priuilegio 1566. 1566 Folio. Collation is Aa12 Bb10 A-l8A-Q8 R8 AA-SS8 TT6. Page size is 395x252 mm. A tall well margined copy bound in plain dark calf over bevelled oak boards. Rebacked at some time with heavy raised bands and two contrasting labels. The endpapers are uniformly toned and brittle due to the acidity of the boards. The general title page is printed in red and black and may have been washed. The Prologue leaves have old marginal repairs and are soiled. This copy lacks all but 3 leaves of sigs Aa and Bb having only the title and the two leaves of the Prologue. Ai has a fore edge repair with slight loss of text. Ai and Aii have slight worming at the lower corner. A iii has a repair to the lower margin. Qi Qviii and Sig. R have lower margins extended. AAi the title to The Thirde Parte is defective with loss at the foot. EEi and sigs.FF and GG have the lower margins extended. HHiv and HHv have repairs to the fore edge. MMvii and MMviii have repairs to a small burn affecting a few words. Apocrypha title and Aaa viii are repaired at the foot. The NT title page is laid down. Aaa viii is remargined on the fore edge. At the end it lacks all after Ooviii i.e. the final leaf of Revelations the Psalter and the Table to Find the Epistles. An attractive copy of Elizabeth I's Great Bible with the text almost complete. The text itself is substantially Coverdale's translation. PROVENANCE: Inscription Robert Walshaw was born at Flockton Mill in the parish of Thornil Thornhill and in the year of Our Lord 1693. Several signatures of Nathaniel Shirt and Nathaniel Shirt Jun. from 1758 onwards. Nathaniel Shirt married Ann Walshaw at Penistone 21 February 1758 and a Nathaniel Shirt was vicar of Kirkburton in the 1650s. All these locations are close to Huddersfield West Yorks. Herbert 119. STC 2nd ed. 2098. ESTC S121985. At Rouen. [By C. Hamillon] at the coste and charges of Richd Carmarden. Cum priuilegio, hardcover
152966850Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529. BIBLE IN LATIN. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529.<br> <br> Second Crespin edition reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio 13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm. 304 leaves 18 CCLXVIII 18 leaves. Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome repeated three times in the text with Jerome's prefaces within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum the six days of Creation and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament and 121 small text woodcuts including twenty-three repetitions: ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders including eight repetitions and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders including fifteen repetitions. Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons leaves D1-D3 are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.<br> <br> Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards roll-tooled in blind to a panel design. Lacking clasps. Original index tabs. Binding worn with some loss of pigskin on upper corner of front cover. Title soiled lower margin of first few leaves wormed and frayed with some loss to woodcut title border a few short marginal tears some mostly marginal dampstaining minor worming to lower inner margins a few inkstains slight discoloration throughout. Despite these minor flaws this is a beautiful example of a French woodcut Bible completely unsophisticated. Contemporary ink inscription on back pastedown dated 1534 contemporary ink inscription on the recto of D4 beneath the Nativity cut eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on title: B.V. Maria in Fürstenfeld. Some early underlining and coloring of woodcuts in red. A few early ink marginalia. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell case.<br> <br> The illustrations follow the schema of the Sacon Bibles printed in Lyons in 1518 and 1521. Crespin's blocks with the exception of the Creation are close copies of those used in Jacques and Jean Mareschal's Lyons Bibles of 1523-1541 as is the layout of the text within ruled columns. The borders for the Old Testament blocks include a strip with the initials "PBA."<br> <br> Fairfax Murray French 36. Harvard French 66. Not in Brunet Rothschild Darlow and Moule.<br> <br> HBS 66850.<br> <br> $9500. Per Johanem Crespin unknown
154749141Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius 1547. Hardcover. Very Good-. 16mo in 8s: a-z8 A-Z8 aa8 bb8 =384 leaves; blank bb7-8. 763 5 blankpp. Printer’s device at title woodcut lettrines. Text in italic headlines and chapter headings in roman; printed marginalia. Later pigskin over bevelled boards tooled in blind brass clasps one of two and catches manuscript title at spine. Extensive old manuscript notes at front endleaf and four blank leaves at the end including the two integral blanks; occasional marginalia and underlining. Title soiled with some slight erosion at margin from oxidation of the clasps else a very good copy with clean fresh text throughout. Complete with the two final blank leaves.<br /> <br /> Second Gryphius edition and a rather uncommon early sixteenth-century printing of Erasmus’ Latin translation of the New Testament first published at Basel in 1516. According to Baudrier Ly. V. 804101/Cat. de Lignerolles Paris Porquet 1894 no. 48 Gryphius first published this translation in 1542 and 1543 as a 16mo of 847 pages; neither of these issues appear in Deleveau & Hillard. Like the present edition these early Gryphius printings of the Erasmus New Testament survive in only a handful of copies. The text opens with Erasmus' dedication to pope Leo X followed by his preface to the reader a general index of the New Testament corpus a listing of the chapters of the four Gospels and a brief passage from Jerome's catalogue of ecclesiastical writings. The editor's introductions precede each book. The text concludes with Erasmus' translation of a brief discussion of apocryphal literature partly from Athanasius though Erasmus questions the attribution: "De libris utriusque testamenti partim reiectus aut non sine contradictione admissis partim apocryphis ex Athanasio tametsi mihi suspectus est titulus." <br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: Extensive early annotations in more than one hand appear throughout the book; many marginal notes have been added throughout the Gospel of Matthew. At the front of the book beginning with the free endleaf: "Poeta de Pythogora" several stanzas in Latin and Greek; facing the title: A morning prayer "Oro matutina lecturis oracula divina" 11 lines; an accounting of biblical eras 10 lines since Abraham David and the Babylonian Exile appears at the verso of the title leaf. The final blank page the two intergral blank leaves and two additional blanks added by the binder are filled with notes in several different hands including: a passage from Augustine's De doctrina christianae 14 lines; noted as book 2 chapters 11 and 12 along with four lines about Tertullian; four pages of notes on the twelve disciples numbered; a Greek text discussing the divine names in which the tetragrammaton is written in Hebrew letters; a passage from a letter of Basilius Magnus in Greek with Latin translation.<br /> <br /> Printed label of Edward Davis Hoblyn 1809-1881 and his manuscript entry dated 1831 at the free endleaf. Edward was likely related to the renowned book collector Robert Hoblyn 1710-1756 of Cornwall. A catalogue of Robert’s collection was printed in 1768 as Bibliotheca Hobliniana and reissued by Murray in 1769 with a new titlepage. The library remained with Robert’s widow and was sold in 1778. The present work is not listed in the Bibliotheca though no fewer than nineteen 16th-century Latin Bibles and Testaments appear in the catalogue. Gift inscription of D. N. Goodman of San Francisco California to Father J. L. Damas at front pastedown dated 1935. References: Baudrier 8 217. Baumgarten Nach. v. merkw. Büchern 8 1755 206 noting that this and the later Gryphius edition which Le Long assigns to the master printer’s workshop are in fact identical and notable examples of elegant typography. Deleveau & Hillard 4407 BNF. Le Long Leipzig 1709 1:751 & 2:478 Bibl. Colbertina - the earlier Gryphius edition of 1542/43 is not cited in either part. Le Long-Masch 2.3 p. 599 noted as the first New Testament ex. Erasmi to appear at Lyon. Sebastian Gryphius hardcover
1593371924London: Excudebant G. Bishop R. Newbery & R. Barker 1593. Six parts in one. Text printed in verse form double column references and notes in margins. 81771 blankpp; 31041 blank leaves; 3 75 i.e. 73 leaves; 6 numbered 1-12pp 13-129 leaves 1 blank; 3 4-74 leaves; 3 198 leaves. With additional blanks bound in at the front and rear. 1 vols. Folio. Eighteenth century reverse calf covers blocked in blind red morocco lettering piece repairs to joints minor loss at head of spine. Repairs at hinges scattered minor paper repairs. Provenance: Peckham Williams armorial bookplate; General Theological Seminary bookplate. Six parts in one. Text printed in verse form double column references and notes in margins. 81771 blankpp; 31041 blank leaves; 3 75 i.e. 73 leaves; 6 numbered 1-12pp 13-129 leaves 1 blank; 3 4-74 leaves; 3 198 leaves. With additional blanks bound in at the front and rear. 1 vols. Folio. The third edition of the Latin Bible printed in England in this case printing Tremellius and Junius's version of the Old Testament with Beza's translation of the New Testament accompanied by Tremellius's version based on the edition printed in Geneva in 1590 see D&M 6182. Texts printed in double columns. The complete text was printed in six parts each with a divisional title and independent pagination or foliation. The fifth part Junius's translation of The Apocrypha was never bound into this copy. A variant of this edition with the imprint for "Guliel. N." i.e. William Norton appeared the same year. ESTC S106974; STC 2061.5; Darlow & Moule 6185; BM 1. b. 12; Copinger 534 Excudebant G. B[ishop] R. N[ewbery] & R. B[arker] unknown
15934599Londini: Excudebant G. Bishop R. Newbery & R. Barker An. Dom. 1593. 1593. 1593 Folio. Collates para4A-P6 2A-2S6 3A-3M6 3N4 4A-4V6 4X4 5A-5L6 5M8 A-2K6 2L4. In six parts each with divisional title page and separate pagination or foliation. The title pages to the Old Testament read "Bibliorum pars secunda -tertia quarta ." and "Libri apocryphi sive appendix Testamenti Veteris .". The divisional titles to part 4 and the Apocrypha are dated 1592. That to the New Testament reads "D.N. Jesu Christi Testamentum Novum ." and bears the imprint "Londini excudebant reg. typograph. Anno salutis humanæ 1592.". Tremellius's and Be`ze's versions of the New Testament are printed in parallel columns. P6 2S6 4X4 and 2L4 are blank. Bound in modern tan goatskin with handmade paper endpapers. Old endpapers preserved. Titlepage laid down with minor loss at lower corner. Some wear to lower blank corners at both ends of the volume evidence of its having been disbound fora considerable time. Occasional unobtrusive ink marka and a few other signs of use but the contents generally clean and crisp. A very good copy. STC 2061.5. Londini: Excudebant G. B[ishop] R. N[ewbery] & R. B[arker], An. Dom. 1593. unknown
151359254Paris Henricus Stephanus 1513. Folio. Bound in a nice 18th century brown half calf with six raised bands to richly gilt spine. Corners slightly bumped and capitals worn especially the lower one where the capital band is showing and has loosened a bit. Inner hinge slightly weak. Front free end-paper with 18th century ink-annotation title year etc. A very light damp stain top the last portion of leaves a bit heavier to the last two leaves. Otherwise internally very nice and clean. All in all a very nice copy with only very light scattered brownspotting. Beautifully printed in two columns and in red and black throughout. Pp. 233-294. <br/><br/><em>Second edition following the original of 1509 of the final two parts of Estienne's typographic masterpiece "Quincuplex Psalterium" also known as the "First book of French Protestantism". These two final parts which make up complete works in themselves consist in the "Psalterium Vetus" - the Old Latin Psalter i.e. the version used by the churches before Jerome's revisions and the "Psaltarium Conciliatum" consisting in Lefevre's own version based on the Vulgate text corrected according to the Hebrew text and using the Aristarchian signs. This spledid publication had an immense impact upon protestantism early bible-scholarship and theology in general and is famed because of its beauty elegance and typographical excellence along with its immense importance historically speaking. "Lefèvre's epoch-making work was awaited impatiently by the learned world and is the topic of many a letter among the extant humanist correspondence of the period: thus Cardinal Ximeèz the future editor of the first polyglot Bible in a letter to Charles de Bovelles praises Lefèvre's scholarship and the usefulness of his "Psalterium". This famous volume is also Henri Estienne's typographical masterpiece and is commonly singled out as one of the outstanding monuments of early 16th-century French typography." Schreiber. "Lefèvre agreed with Erasmus that theology must be based on accurate texts and translations of the Scriptures; as the title of the volume indicates Lefèvre presents five different versions of the psalms" Schreiber. As described the present copy contains the final two. The three parts that were printed before those two were all printed in three columns and consisted in the three versions of St Jerome namely the "Psalterium Romanum" Jerome's first version of the Old Latin Psalter according to the Septuagint the "Psalterium Gallicum" Jerome's second revision first adopted by the churches of Gaul and the "Psalterium Hebraicum" Jerome's translation directly from the Hebrew. Schreiber nr. 8 1509 ed.; Renouard 1509 nr. 1.; Mortimer 1 nr. 62 present edition. </em> hardcover
1516371021Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus 1516. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards boards with repeated roll of hound hunter and stag spine with floral tools. Clasps perished early repairs with vellum at lower corners; spine darkened with chip at foot joint starting wormholes to the covers. Toning throughout worm holes throughout but heavier to the preliminary and terminal leaves paper loss not affecting text at the lower outer corners of the first 3 leaves minor dampstaining at the lower corners of most leaves and extending from the top inner margin. Scattered early marginalia. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. The Genoa Psalter also known as the Octaplum or Quadruplex Psalter was the first polyglot psalter to be published and the first polyglot edition of any part of the Bible. Financed by the Oriental language scholar Bishop Agostino Giustiniani and printed in Genoa in 1516 it presents the psalms laid out in eight columns i.e. four per page on double-page spreads: in Hebrew a Latin paraphrase the Vulgate Latin the Septuagint Greek Arabic Chaldean Aramaic a Latin paraphrase and the editor's notes. "A monument of Renaissance typography this Psalter was linguistically the most ambitious work attempted to date and the first Polyglot work ever published. It provides the Psalms in five languages as well as a marginal scholarship based largely on rabbinic sources. The Arabic text is one of the first two texts and the first biblical text ever printed in this language. The Hebrew types used in this book were apparently never used again" B. Sabin Hill Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust The Piermont Morgan Library 1989 no. 18.<br /> <br /> Notably within a lengthy editor's note to Psalm XIX is what is considered the first printed biography of Christopher Columbus along with a very early description of his voyage. A native son of Genoa Giustiniani presents the discovery of the new world as a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy appropriately glossing verse four of Psalm XIX to include his biography of Columbus: "Their sound is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." <br /> <br /> The text of the biography of Columbus written a decade after his death includes a brief account of his childhood and continues at length on his discovery of America. Translated from the Latin it begins: "And so their words have reached unto the ends of the earth at least in our own times in which by the marvelous daring of Christopher Columbus of Genoa almost another world was discovered and joined to the community of Christians. And since Columbus often declared that he was chosen by God so that through him this prophecy would be fulfilled I did not consider it unsuitable to include his life here. Therefore Christopher surnamed Columbus a Genoese by birth . lived in our age and through his own efforts explored more lands and seas in a few months than almost all other mortals had done throughout all previous ages . More swiftly than the Portuguese had done he approached new lands and new peoples and at last penetrated regions unknown before now. The news of this matter quickly reached the King who - both out of rivalry with the Portuguese kings and a desire for such new marvels and glory that might accrue to him and his descendants - after long discussions with Columbus finally ordered two ships to be outfitted. With these Columbus set sail from the Fortunate Islands directing his course slightly off the western line . After many days of sailing they had covered great distances. While the others having lost all hope urged a change in course Columbus persisted asserting by reason and conjecture that continuing but a little longer might lead them to discover continents or islands. Nor was he wrong. On the following dawn they sighted land. From this event immense confidence arose in human minds. Later it was learned that these were islands and observations were made of certain peoples there uncultivated and prone to raids on their neighbors even devouring human flesh like wolves. There were violent encounters yet eventually some of these islanders were brought safely to Spain astonishing and delighting all who saw them because they were at first timid unfamiliar with approach easy to persuade and marveling at everything as new."<br /> <br /> An important and desirable work from a liturgical linguistic and historical perspective. Adams B1370; BM STC Italian p. 97; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468; European Americana 516/4; Harrisse BAV 88; JCB 3 I:64; Smitskamp 236; Roper Early Arabic Printing in Europe in Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution p. 132; Vinograd Genoa 1. Provenance: Cenobii Alois 1570 inscription below title; Bibliotheca Regia Monacensi pencil inscription on the inside front board identifying it as a duplicate; General Theological Seminary ink and blindstamps and other markings Petrus Paulus Porrus unknown
1584V6854Antwerp 1584. 16mo 118 x 8 cm. Christophe Plantin Late 17th-century dark brown calf with gold-stamped coat of arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet on both covers and gold-tooled dubbel-lined borders on covers and spine faded red speckled edges. With woodcut printer's device on the title page the text is partially printed in Greek. 267 13 pp. The text of this Book of Psalms is printed in Greek and Latin in parallel columns and on each page the inner column contains the text in Greek while the outer column contains the same in Latin. There are separate Greek and Latin indexes at the end of the work. This copy belonged to Pierre-Daniel Huet 1630-1721 a French clergyman and scholar. According to the title page this bilingual work was published by Plantin after the example of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible 1520. Plantin also issued a 24mo edition in the same year.The present copy is bound in dark brown leather with the coat of arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet stamped in gold on the front and back covers. Huet was the Bishop of Soissons and later Avranches. He was the cofounder of the Académie de Physique in Caen and in 1674 he became a member of the Académie française. He was one of the most learned men of his age; he studied Greek and Hebrew and he claimed to have read the Hebrew text of the Bible 24 times. The present volume also contains a few marginal corrections of the Greek text in a contemporary neat hand. Huet was known for his very fine and neat handwriting. As a linguist with an interest in Greek and Hebrew it is highly probable that Huet extensively used this copy and that he himself added the annotations. Despite his knowledge of Hebrew the partly obscure Hebrew annotations on the first endleaf "this book belongs to me Cardeliac" are probably not his. Although Huet was not a member of the Jesuit order he lived his final years in a Jesuit home in Paris. After his death he bequeathed his library to the Jesuits and upon the dissolution of the order in France in 1764 king Louis XV bought Huet's books and they are now part of the colleciton of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The bookplate on the front pastedown was made by the Jesuits to commemorate Huet's donation of his library.Covers show signs of wear spine has been expertly restored. With an ex libris-label of Pierre-Daniel Huet on the front pastedown: "Ex libris bibliothecae quam Illustrissimus Ecclesiae Princeps. D Petrus Daniel Huetius . 1692." an inscription in brown ink in Hebrew and several inscriptions in pencil all on the first fly leaf. With crossed out inscriptions except for "164" in the bottom left corner on the verso of the third fly leaf and at the head of the title-page with some annotations in dark brown ink in Greek throughout very slight foxing throughout a small water stain in the top margin of the second half of the book without affecting the text. On pp. 29-30 a small corrosion spot on p. 30 a marginal stain and a small hole in the text in p. 87 all very slightly affecting the text. This is a well preserved copy of a bilingual book of psalms with an interesting provenance.l BMC STC Dutch p. 26; Voet 671; Olivier 1684. cf. NBG XXV col. 381-385; Voet 672; Adams B-1390 "32mo". ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks hardcover