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D16616 — Geneva: Robert Estienne. Hardcover. Very Good. M.D.LVII 1556 -1557 “Calend. Marti.”. 3 volumes folio 385 x 242 mm. Pagination: I 480 leaves: 10 1–188 1–281 1; II 468 leaves: 1 287–316 2 436; III 433 of 434 leaves lacking final blank: 1–336 55 1 41pp. Collation: I: <br /><br />10 a-v8 x-z6 aa6 bb4 aaa-zzz8 aaaa-iiii8 kkkk6 llll8 mmmm-nnnn6; II: oooo-qqqq8 rrrr6 A10 B-Z8 AA-ZZ8 AAA-GGG8 HHH-III6; III: Aa-Zz8 AAa-TTt8 aa-gg8 Aa-Dd8 Ee9 of10. Volumes 1 and 3 with woodcut printer’s device of Robert Estienne on title page: an olive tree entwined with serpent and man with branches falling to ground around him and excerpt of Romans 11:20 NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME “Be not high-minded but fear” first word of title “Biblia” within woodcut cartouche frame with pastoral scene and grapevines. 20 woodcut text illustrations some full page based on the detailed descriptions of the Tabernacle Solomon’s Temple implements and architecture including a menorah fol. 75r vestments of the high priest f. 80r also Hiram’s laver f. 109v and Ezekiel’s Vision p. 275 several woodcut criblé initials throughout. Text in Latin and Hebrew. 17th-century Dutch vellum embossed with central lozenge design green silk ties; light marginal soiling or staining not severe some light intermittent browning underlining in first few leaves of first volume lacking final blank in third volume light edgewear on the extremities otherwise good and rather exemplary copies of this important publication. This copy formerly in the Shirburn Castle library of The Earl of Macclesfield their North Library bookplate marked '1.H.5–7'. In 2006 sold at Sotheby’s London 11 April 2006 lot 2312. <br/><br/>Fifth folio edition of the Latin Bible as “Biblia Utriusque Testamenti” published by Robert Estienne 1503–1559 in 1556 but with the original edition of the new Latin translation and commentary on the New Testament by Theodore Beza 1519–1605; notably this edition appeared contemporaneously with the printing of John Calvin’s Psalms Commentary. Theodore Beza a French Reformed Protestant theologian and Calvinist produced one Latin and four Greek-Latin editions of the New Testament in his lifetime working carefully through extant Greek manuscript sources. Estienne’s great glossed Latin Bible of 1556/57 thus contained the translation of the Old Testament by Dominican philologist Sante Pagnini or Pagninus 1470–1536 first printed in 1528. Based on the Hebrew Pagnini’s text is in the center of each page and Beza’s translation from the Greek is in smaller type to the side with commentary and alternate readings underneath. The Estienne-Beza Latin Bible with its copious notes and ties to Calvinist theology was of considerable importance in the early modern era. The 20 woodcut biblical illustrations were first used in an Estienne edition of the Bible printed in Paris in 1540. This copy beautifully bound in a Dutch vellum enjoyed placement in one of the finest libraries in Britain from around the mid-18th century. See also Renouard 'Estienne' p. 87; cf. Schreiber 'Estienne' 113. Robert Estienne hardcover books