Vulgate bible (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. [3], xviii, [1], 64, 1016 p.; 30 cm. Armorial bookplate of Robert Spedding Wilson. (not in Darlow & Moule) Stately but worn full vellum. Upper joint torn but firm. Foxing.

4to. 93, 16, 793, 228pp. With numerous full-page and text-illustrations. Contemp. full black calf with panelled covers, richly gilt, embossed and gilt edges, with 2 metall clasps. Family register and marriage certificate with contemp. handwritten entries. - 2 of the chromolithogr. plates with copyright imprint 1874 resp. 1876. - Four plates with a few marginal small tears, one plate with small missing corner piece otherwise a very good copy.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon état. 2 volumes. In-32 12 x 6 cm. Reliures de l'époque maroquin grenat, dos lisses ornés de fers dorés, plats encadrés d'un triple filet doré, contreplats encadrés de roulette dorée, pages de gardes dominotées, vignette au titre, 661 pp. en pagination continue, index epistolarum et evangeliorum. Plats et contreplats brunis. Texte en latin.…

Hardcover. Nouvelle ed. Vol. I [of II]: Mt.-Acts. xx, [4], 525, [6] p.: frontis.; 19.5 cm. (Reuss 200) -- 'Ex Bibliotheca D holbach Anno 1740' on fpd. Fair rubbed sheep, upper joint cracked. Covers holding by cords. Champagne, Van-schuppen 1666 (illustrator).

579ll on very thin parchment; early foliation in roman numerals (with errors) top outer corner recto, supplemented by modern foliation in pencil; horizontal catchword centre lower margin in quire 2, traces in quires 12, 16, 18, 19, quires signed at the beginning, very bottom inside corner, in an Arabic numeral, many trimmed (presumably by the 19th-century binder), ruled in lead sometimes with the top two, middle two, and bottom two horizontal lines full across, full-length vertical bounding lines inside, outside, and between the columns, and with an extra set of double rules at the top and bottom of the page (justification 94-90 x 68-64 mm.). Written by many scribes below the top line in very small formal gothic bookhands in two columns (ff. 546-575v, the Interpretation of Hebrew Names in three columns) of 49-45 lines, majuscules within the text stroked with red, red and blue running titles and chapter numbers, occasional red rubrics (often blank spaces for the rubrics remain), one-line alternately red and blue initials, chapters begin with two-line (with extensions up to fifteen lines) alternately red and blue initials with pen decoration in the other colour, approximately sixty-eight 6- to 25-line parted red and blue initials with red and/or blue pen work, parted initials on f. i and iv verso (opening prologue and Genesis) extend the full-length of the page. With ten illuminated initials, 7-lines high, pink or mauve with white highlights, infilled with pink and blue rinceaux, some terminating with animal heads, on highly polished gold grounds, or on contrasting grounds of dark blue or pink, heavily edged in black, overall in very good condition, f. 1 darkened and repaired in the inner margin, f. 32, modern repair with slight loss of text, f. 490, erasure(?) with some damage to a few lines of text, ff. 539-545, damage from damp top outer corner, f. 544, top outer corner repaired (with loss of text), generous margins but trimmed (some loss at the edges of the added text on ff. 544-545), the ink on some pages has faded or been abraded. Bound in early 19th-century red roan, spine elaborately tooled in gilt and lettered 'Biblia/Sacra/M.S.S,' expertly rebacked with old spine laid down, boards with a single gilt rule, speckled edges, with yellow glazed endpapers, lower board and edges lightly scuffed; a very handsome binding, with 20th-century slipcase with paper label to spine lettered in ink and matching chemise. Dimensions 153 x 105 mm. Small portable Bibles containing the complete Old and New Testaments were one of the greatest achievements of 13th-century book production, transforming the use and ownership of the Bible. This English example was copied by numerous scribes, and decorated in a number of styles. The ten handsome illuminated initials decorate the Minor Prophets, an unusual choice. Textual evidence links it to both the Dominicans and Franciscans. Notable here are the numerous additions that show how this was used, including the contemporary table of introits and Mass lections, and numerous marginal notes from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. The first portable Bibles may have been copied in Paris at the end of the 1220s or early 1230s. Many of them were products of the commercial booksellers of Paris. English examples of this type of Bible, however, appear at almost the same time, and 13th-century England was an important centre for the production of Bibles, although in smaller numbers than France. However, the text of English 13th-century Bibles is often quite distinct from contemporary Bibles from Paris. Centralised production in Paris resulted in numerous Bibles that share the same text (the text modern scholars call the Paris Bible). In England, a much more diffuse production meant that there is a much greater variety in the text of the Bibles; there is no 'typical' English text. The Psalms have been omitted here. This is fairly common in 13th-century Bibles, and possibly more common in England than elsewhere. This Bible does show some influence of the Paris Bible. In particular, the biblical books are arranged according to the 'new' Paris order (the same order used today, with the Gospels followed by the Pauline Epistles rather than by Acts), and the books are divided according to the modern chapters (although as noted above, with many variations, including some that Paul Saenger has identified as English (Saenger, 2013)), and it includes the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. The many different scribes who copied this book, and the variety of different styles found in the pen decoration, are certainly of great interest. There are many intriguing bits of evidence that tell us how this Bible was put together. The rubricator for example made fairly frequent errors, confusing prologues and biblical books, and in one case, inserting the wrong running title, calling the book usually known as 2 Ezra in 13th-century Bibles, and 3 Ezra by modern scholars (Stegmüller 94,1) 'Osee' (i.e. the minor prophet, Hosea). A corrector changed it to 'iosias' not the usual name for this book, although it does begin 'Et fecit iosias â¦' The foliation in Roman numerals is also noteworthy (most books in the Middle Ages do not include page or folio numbers) with numerous mistakes in the series, including large gaps, despite the text being complete. Ten biblical books begin with finely executed illuminated initials by a well-trained, but provincial or idiosyncratic artist, freely interpreting more mainstream initials from commercial centres such as Oxford or Paris; most of the initials are pink or a distinctive mauve shade, with white highlights, infilled with tightly curled vine scrolls that terminate in simple leaves or animal-heads, on contrasting grounds, or on highly polished gold, all heavily edged in black. The 'I' on f. 397v, extends 30-lines, and is infilled with a distinctive geometric lattice-pattern. The evidence of the script and decorations supports an origin in the second ha.…

With one small polychrome gilt illuminated initial F on a2, initials in red or blue thoughout. Printed marginalia present on a2 and a7. [436] ff., [872] pp. (final page is blank). 1 vols. Folio. Kesler's second Bible, a page-for-page reprint of the edition 9 October 1487. These editions are notable for including at end the section headed "Translatores Biblie" with two notes, "dealing with (1) ancient versions . and (2) with the methods of interpreting the Holy Scripture" (D&M) and form part of the apparatus accompanying many later editions of the Latin Bible. The first use of a title page for the Bible is ascribed to Johann Pruess in the 1486 Strassburg edition; here it is simply: Biblia. ISTC ib00591000; GW 4268; Goff B591; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 88; Darlow & Moule (note at 6086). Provenance: W. A. Copinger (bookplate); General Theological Seminary, gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Dean Augustus Hoffman (bookplates and blindstamps) Old leather tooled in blind, clasps perished. Rebacked, edges repaired, last few leaves with marginal repairs (final leaf of Names backed, with small losses at head). Ownership marks struck out on title leaf. Very good. Cloth folding box With one small polychrome gilt illuminated initial F on a2, initials in red or blue thoughout. Printed marginalia present on a2 and a7. [436] ff., [872] pp. (final page is blank). 1 vols. Folio.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition, thus. Two tomes (each in two parts), bound in one volume, folio: [6], lxxix, [1, blank], 544; [1, title], [1, blank], [545]-957, [1, blank], xx (Cantique des cantiques), 96 (La sagesse; Ecclesiastique de Jesus fils de Sirach); [1, title], [1, blank], 468; [1, title], [1, blank], 430, 16 (Oratio Manassae; Liber Esdrae - tertius et quartus) pp. Main titles for each tome in red and black; secondary titles in black only (all four titles with engraved printer's device; each dated 1701). Text in two columns (Latin and French). Illustrated with 6 engraved plates: frontispiece (Johann Friederich Karg von Bebenburg); folding plate with 16 vignettes (4x4) depicting well-known biblical scenes; 4 folding maps (The Holy Land; The Promised Land Apportioned by Tribe; Jerusalem in the Second Temple Era - after Lamy; The World Known to the Evangelists). Quarter-page engraved vignettes at the head of each of the 30 biblical books; historiated initials; printed marginalia. Exquisitely bound in the 19th century in levant morocco extra over wooden boards, with mosaic compartments in crimson, ochre; and dark brown bordered in fine gilt line; spine with raised bands (lightly rubbed); pair of brass mounts, finished in black, with steel rivets at both covers (clasps and catched perished). All edges gilt and elaborately gauffered in textured floral motif; gilt inner dentelles; decorative endleaves (renewed) in orange and black; crimson silk ribbon marker. The work of a master binder. Expertly repaired at spine caps. Occasional faint embrowning; marginal dampstains beginning in second half (mostly at outer corners; expanding to fore-edge and darkening considerably in final 20 leaves). Overall a very good copy, with crisp text throughout, though incomplete: lacks Antoine Arnould's "Concorde des quatre Evangélistes," along with its accompanying Latin version and the concluding index. Amply margined copy of this sumptuous edition of the Bible, comprising the Latin Sixto-clementine Vulgate and the Port-Royal French translation printed in parallel columns. Isaac-Louis Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684) was the principal translator of the French version, which was edited and completed after his death by Pierre Thomas du Fossé (1634-1698) and Henri-Charles de Beaubrun (1655-1723), who also provide annotations throughout. According to Barbier, the French controversialist Thierry de Viaixnes (1659-1735), who found himself often at odds with his superiors, was the principal editor of the work; at the time of its preparation he was serving as director of an academy at Hautvilliers in the diocese of Rheims (McClintock & Strong). Dedicated to Johann Friederich Karg von Bebenburg (1648-1719), whose signed portrait was drawn and engraved by C. Gustav of Amling. An advocate of maximal papal power, Karg served as Privy Councilor of the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, Peter Philipp von Dernbach, then of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria. He served as Dean of Our Lady in Munich, and was entrusted by Emperor Leopold I with a legation to Pope Innocence XI. By these efforts he secured in 1688 the election of Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria as Archbishop of Cologne, as a result of which he was made Chancellor and Minister of State (here noted on the frontispiece). Provenance and annotations: Bookplate of Herman Blum (Blumhaven Library & Gallery), with his ticket below; two gilt-stamped ex-libris morocco labels: Henry W. Poor (oval); Adolph Lewisohn (octogonal). References: Darlow & Moule 3779; Deleveau & Hillard, Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIe siècles conservées è Paris, 605; ADB 15 (1882), "Karg: Johann Friedrich;". …

2 volumes bound as 1. Extraordinary copy of the first edition, published by Moretus (Moerentorf) & Van Keerberghen, of the famous Moerentorf Bible in the vernacular Dutch language, printed in 1599, especially interesting for its vivid contemporary hand-colouring and for its richly blind-tooled contemporary binding. The authoritative Moerentorf Bible or Moretus Bible, was a revision of the 1548 Louvain Bible in Dutch, but corrected based on the improved Latin Vulgate of 1592 published by the authority of Pope Clement VIII. The Moerentorf Bible met extraordinary success and "became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics" (Darlow & Moule) for almost three centuries, being repeatedly reprinted as the official Dutch translation of the Vulgate in the Low Countries.Jan Moerentorf, better known as Jan I Moretus, published this revised Dutch translation of the Old and New Testament together in 1599 with the title Biblia sacra. The first woodcut of the Old Testament, in Genesis, is signed "P.B" by Peter van der Borcht, a Flemish painter, draughtsman and etcher who was full-time assistant to Christopher Plantin and illustrated many of his liturgical works. The other woodcut illustrations in the Old Testament are copied from the engraved print series of the German painter and printmaker Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), who was especially known for his very small engravings. The present edition appeared in two issues, one with the imprint of Moretus alone and the present one with the imprint of both Moretus and Van Keerberghen. Poortman shows a completely different first woodcut illustration (not signed P.B.) for the Moretus version, says its other illustrations are printed from a different series of blocks, differing in detail and rendering the scenes in mirror image, and also notes differences in the orthography. With the bookplate (on the front paste-down) and library stamp (on a free endleaf, the back of the title-page, and the first text page) of Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheek Eindhoven, the former monastic library of the Augustinian monastery in Eindhoven and one of the most important scholarly theological libraries of the Netherlands. Also with one contemporary annotation on Pp1 of the Old Testament.Binding slightly worn around the edges, especially around the spine, edges a little dust-soiled and some damage to the back board where the leather fastenings were originally attached to the boards with brass pins. Minor marginal stains, spots and dust-soiling, mostly in the first part, and a few creases throughout the book, a small tear in the right lower corner of Oo6 in the Old Testament (not affecting the text), a larger tear (partly restored) and restoration in the foot margin in L6 of the Old Testament. The colouring of the initials and woodcuts has slightly browned the paper. Overall, however, the Bible is in good condition. A beautiful copy of one of the most important Dutch Bibles ever published, here in a richly blind-tooled contemporary binding and complete with all the illustrations coloured by a contemporary hand.l Belgica typographica 1541-1600, 473 & 7886; Biblia Sacra 1599.B.dut.JM1.A; Bibliotheca Catholica Neerlandica impressa 4529; BM STC Dutch, p. 24; Darlow & Moule 3300; Dirk Imhof, Jan Moretus and the continuation of the Plantin press (1589-1610), B-36B; Pettegree, Netherlandish Books 3891; Poortman, Bijbel en prent I, and pp. 131-133, 217; STCV 12923651; USTC 402496; not in Adams. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, with brass catchplates, remnants of leather strap fastenings, brass corner pieces on all corners and a brass centrepiece on each board, all with brass bosses. With an engraved title page (coloured by a contemporary hand with extensive use of gold) showing Moses on the left, David on the right, and the four evangelists below, and 90 woodcuts in the text of both the Old and the New Testament, all except one vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. The woodcuts in the Old Testament after a series by Hans Sebald Beham, except for the first by Peter van der Borcht, signed "P.B."; those in the New Testament are by an unidentified artist. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and headpieces, also coloured by a contemporary hand. Set in two columns of gothic textura type with the marginal notes, chapter headings and preface in roman type. Pages: [4], 410; [106] ll.…

7 volumes bound as 9 (Old Testament I-VII & New Testament I-II). A small Latin Vulgate bible printed by the Plantin-Moretus office in Antwerp, the smallest-format edition of the Sixtine-Clementine authorized Catholic text. The first volume of the Old Testament has only the engraved general title-page, while each of the remaining Old Textament volumes as printed has a separate volume title-page naming the books it covers (including the volume with the apocrypha, miscellaneos texts and the indexes. After the general title-page follow a preface to the reader, the decree of the Council of Trent, "Paulus Papa V. Ad futuram rei memoriam" (Pope Paul V died in 1621) and a privilege, dated Brussels, 1611. The Old Testament also has prefaces to the books. The New Testament has no preliminaries except its title-page. In 1546 the Council of Trent ordered a revision of the Vulgate Latin Bible to establish an authorized Catholic text. Pope Sixtus V ordered the preparation of the new edition, printed by the Vatican Press and published in 1590. The book has been variously described as 12mo, 16mo and 24mo, but it is in fact a 24mo in 8s. The three divisional titles possibly printed specially for this copy have vertical chainlines and may be in 18mo format. The binding stamps are finely cut and skilfully applied, especially the curls on the spine, so it is likely to have been executed by one of the great French binders of ca. 1700.With an owner's inscription on a free endleaf in volume IV as bound ("ce livre apartient a monseigneur L[']Evesque D[']Evreux"), presumably Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreux from 1711 to his death, whose bookplate appears in 7 of the 9 volumes: the handwriting is old-fashioned for 1711, so the book could have come to Le Normand from an earlier Bishop of Evreux, but perhaps he simply wrote in an old-fashioned style. The pagination of volume ii accidentally omits numbers 577-578 but no leaf is missing there. Very slightly browned, with an occasional minor spot and with the library stamps on the letterpress title-pages abraded, but still generally in very good condition. With small cracks in the hinges of 4 volumes, minor wear on the board edges and corners, and volume III as bound (vol. ii as printed) darkened, but the binding is also otherwise in very good condition, with the tooling clear and sharp. A lovely little Catholic bible beautifully bound ca. 1700 in French gold-tooled red morocco, an unusually small format for a Catholic bible.l Darlow & Moule 6211 (New Testament only); STCV 6650952; USTC 1003882; not in www.bibliasacra.nl. Uniform gold-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1700), sewn on 4 supports, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges (the boards in a panel design, each board with a double frame of triple fillets, the inner 2 fillets in each frame closer together than the outer, with an ornament stamped on the intersections of the fillets at the corners of both frames, and a flower in each corner between the frames, with its head toward the corner; the spine with the title - "BIBLIA|SACRA" or "NOVVM|TESTA" - and volume - "TOM. I." etc. - in the 2nd of 5 compartments, "INDEX" in the 3rd compartment of volume VII, and the other compartments filled with curls and dots: a style sometimes called "grotesque"), gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled pastedowns (blue, red, white and yellow, extensively swirled), headbands in green and white, gilt edges. Seven volumes with the ca. 1711 engraved armorial bookplate of Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreau, and probably bound for him (his bookplate probably removed from volumes II and III as bound). With a richly engraved general title page, 6 volume title pages (each with the same Plantin-Moretus woodcut compasses device), a smaller woodcut compasses device plus 3 (of 4) repeats (2 appear on the back of the colophon; each of the others on an otherwise blank leaf), woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types. The present copy with 3 extra letterpress divisional title pages, perhaps specially printed for this copy when it was bound. Pages: 574; [2], 575-729, [2], [5 blank]; "637" [= 635], [1], [1 blank], [4 blank] (in place of [1], [3 blank]); 192; 479, [1 blank]; 861, [2], [1 blank]; 128, [186], [6 blank]; 336, [2], 337-758, [2], [8 blank] pp.…

Zustand: very good. Lovanii (Louvain): Martinus van Overbeke, 1740; Complete in 2 volumes: I: (24), xxi, (1), 520 pp.; II: 506, 44 (index geographicus; tabulae chronologiae sacrae) pp. Contemporary calf with raised bands and gilt decorated spine, edges red, marbled endpapers. Folio 29x48 cm. Margins wide. Our copy lacks the plate with biblical scenes but has in volume I: full page frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee Thomas-Philippe de Hennin-Liétard Archbishop of Malines after Ae. J. Smeyers by Pieter Tanjé, printer's mark on titlepage, 1 smaller engraving after L.F.D.B. also by Tanjé, 2 folding maps (totius orbis; terra promissa), 1 map on 2 pages (Terre Saint O.T.); In Volume II: printer's mark on titlepage, 1 map (Terre comme lorsque l'Évangile fut publié). 2 Maps after Nicolas Sanson d' Abbeville. The pp. of volume I 499-506 contain an "index epistolarum et evangeliorum quae e veteri et novo testamento excerpta", "index testimoniorum a christo", "Hebraicorum, chaldaeorum, graecorumque nominum interpretatio". Text in Latin. Very good copy of this second Belgian printing of the Vulgate edition of the Bible commentated by J.B. Duhamel (1624-1706). The first edition had appeared in Paris 1705. With all maps and engraved full page frontispiece but lacking 1 plate. Bindings with moderate worn, mainly at edges and corners, small hole in 1 label at spine; small library stamp on first fly leaves; some occasional browning else very good, solid and clean. Brunet, c. 880 ("notes estimées"); Renier, La Bible imprimée dans les collections de l'Université de Mons-Hainaut XVe-XXe siècle. 1995, n° 50-51; Not in Bibliotheca Belgica. Not in Darlow-Moule. Condition : very good copy. Keywords : .…

7 volumes bound as 9 (Old Testament I-VII & New Testament I-II). A small Latin Vulgate bible printed by the Plantin-Moretus office in Antwerp, the smallest-format edition of the Sixtine-Clementine authorized Catholic text. The first volume of the Old Testament has only the engraved general title-page, while each of the remaining Old Textament volumes as printed has a separate volume title-page naming the books it covers (including the volume with the apocrypha, miscellaneos texts and the indexes. After the general title-page follow a preface to the reader, the decree of the Council of Trent, "Paulus Papa V. Ad futuram rei memoriam" (Pope Paul V died in 1621) and a privilege, dated Brussels, 1611. The Old Testament also has prefaces to the books. The New Testament has no preliminaries except its title-page. In 1546 the Council of Trent ordered a revision of the Vulgate Latin Bible to establish an authorized Catholic text. Pope Sixtus V ordered the preparation of the new edition, printed by the Vatican Press and published in 1590. The book has been variously described as 12mo, 16mo and 24mo, but it is in fact a 24mo in 8s. The three divisional titles possibly printed specially for this copy have vertical chainlines and may be in 18mo format. The binding stamps are finely cut and skilfully applied, especially the curls on the spine, so it is likely to have been executed by one of the great French binders of ca. 1700.With an owner's inscription on a free endleaf in volume IV as bound ("ce livre apartient a monseigneur L[']Evesque D[']Evreux"), presumably Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreux from 1711 to his death, whose bookplate appears in 7 of the 9 volumes: the handwriting is old-fashioned for 1711, so the book could have come to Le Normand from an earlier Bishop of Evreux, but perhaps he simply wrote in an old-fashioned style. The pagination of volume ii accidentally omits numbers 577-578 but no leaf is missing there. Very slightly browned, with an occasional minor spot and with the library stamps on the letterpress title-pages abraded, but still generally in very good condition. With small cracks in the hinges of 4 volumes, minor wear on the board edges and corners, and volume III as bound (vol. ii as printed) darkened, but the binding is also otherwise in very good condition, with the tooling clear and sharp. A lovely little Catholic bible beautifully bound ca. 1700 in French gold-tooled red morocco, an unusually small format for a Catholic bible.l Darlow & Moule 6211 (New Testament only); STCV 6650952; USTC 1003882; not in www.bibliasacra.nl. Uniform gold-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1700), sewn on 4 supports, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges (the boards in a panel design, each board with a double frame of triple fillets, the inner 2 fillets in each frame closer together than the outer, with an ornament stamped on the intersections of the fillets at the corners of both frames, and a flower in each corner between the frames, with its head toward the corner; the spine with the title - "BIBLIA|SACRA" or "NOVVM|TESTA" - and volume - "TOM. I." etc. - in the 2nd of 5 compartments, "INDEX" in the 3rd compartment of volume VII, and the other compartments filled with curls and dots: a style sometimes called "grotesque"), gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled pastedowns (blue, red, white and yellow, extensively swirled), headbands in green and white, gilt edges. Seven volumes with the ca. 1711 engraved armorial bookplate of Jean Le Normand (1662-1733), Bishop of Evreau, and probably bound for him (his bookplate probably removed from volumes II and III as bound). With a richly engraved general title page, 6 volume title pages (each with the same Plantin-Moretus woodcut compasses device), a smaller woodcut compasses device plus 3 (of 4) repeats (2 appear on the back of the colophon; each of the others on an otherwise blank leaf), woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic types. The present copy with 3 extra letterpress divisional title pages, perhaps specially printed for this copy when it was bound. Pages: 574; [2], 575-729, [2], [5 blank]; "637" [= 635], [1], [1 blank], [4 blank] (in place of [1], [3 blank]); 192; 479, [1 blank]; 861, [2], [1 blank]; 128, [186], [6 blank]; 336, [2], 337-758, [2], [8 blank] pp.…

2 volumes bound as 1. Extraordinary copy of the first edition, published by Moretus (Moerentorf) & Van Keerberghen, of the famous Moerentorf Bible in the vernacular Dutch language, printed in 1599, especially interesting for its vivid contemporary hand-colouring and for its richly blind-tooled contemporary binding. The authoritative Moerentorf Bible or Moretus Bible, was a revision of the 1548 Louvain Bible in Dutch, but corrected based on the improved Latin Vulgate of 1592 published by the authority of Pope Clement VIII. The Moerentorf Bible met extraordinary success and "became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics" (Darlow & Moule) for almost three centuries, being repeatedly reprinted as the official Dutch translation of the Vulgate in the Low Countries.Jan Moerentorf, better known as Jan I Moretus, published this revised Dutch translation of the Old and New Testament together in 1599 with the title Biblia sacra. The first woodcut of the Old Testament, in Genesis, is signed "P.B" by Peter van der Borcht, a Flemish painter, draughtsman and etcher who was full-time assistant to Christopher Plantin and illustrated many of his liturgical works. The other woodcut illustrations in the Old Testament are copied from the engraved print series of the German painter and printmaker Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), who was especially known for his very small engravings. The present edition appeared in two issues, one with the imprint of Moretus alone and the present one with the imprint of both Moretus and Van Keerberghen. Poortman shows a completely different first woodcut illustration (not signed P.B.) for the Moretus version, says its other illustrations are printed from a different series of blocks, differing in detail and rendering the scenes in mirror image, and also notes differences in the orthography. With the bookplate (on the front paste-down) and library stamp (on a free endleaf, the back of the title-page, and the first text page) of Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheek Eindhoven, the former monastic library of the Augustinian monastery in Eindhoven and one of the most important scholarly theological libraries of the Netherlands. Also with one contemporary annotation on Pp1 of the Old Testament.Binding slightly worn around the edges, especially around the spine, edges a little dust-soiled and some damage to the back board where the leather fastenings were originally attached to the boards with brass pins. Minor marginal stains, spots and dust-soiling, mostly in the first part, and a few creases throughout the book, a small tear in the right lower corner of Oo6 in the Old Testament (not affecting the text), a larger tear (partly restored) and restoration in the foot margin in L6 of the Old Testament. The colouring of the initials and woodcuts has slightly browned the paper. Overall, however, the Bible is in good condition. A beautiful copy of one of the most important Dutch Bibles ever published, here in a richly blind-tooled contemporary binding and complete with all the illustrations coloured by a contemporary hand.l Belgica typographica 1541-1600, 473 & 7886; Biblia Sacra 1599.B.dut.JM1.A; Bibliotheca Catholica Neerlandica impressa 4529; BM STC Dutch, p. 24; Darlow & Moule 3300; Dirk Imhof, Jan Moretus and the continuation of the Plantin press (1589-1610), B-36B; Pettegree, Netherlandish Books 3891; Poortman, Bijbel en prent I, and pp. 131-133, 217; STCV 12923651; USTC 402496; not in Adams. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, with brass catchplates, remnants of leather strap fastenings, brass corner pieces on all corners and a brass centrepiece on each board, all with brass bosses. With an engraved title page (coloured by a contemporary hand with extensive use of gold) showing Moses on the left, David on the right, and the four evangelists below, and 90 woodcuts in the text of both the Old and the New Testament, all except one vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. The woodcuts in the Old Testament after a series by Hans Sebald Beham, except for the first by Peter van der Borcht, signed "P.B."; those in the New Testament are by an unidentified artist. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and headpieces, also coloured by a contemporary hand. Set in two columns of gothic textura type with the marginal notes, chapter headings and preface in roman type. Pages: [4], 410; [106] ll.…

Third edition, and the first with these illustrations. Printer's device on title pages, woodcut illustrations in text, including 5 (full-page), ornamental initials. [10], 268; [1], 104 [i.e. 103, error in pagination omitting leaf 83]; 90; 92 ff. Collation: *10 a-z? A-I? K-L? Aa10 Bb-Mm? Nn? AA-KK? LL10 2a-2l? 2m? Early manuscript annotations. 1 vols. Folio (17x11-1/4 inches). The third and finest folio edition of Latin Vulgate Bible prepared by scholar/printer Robert Estienne (1503-59). Though the edition was entered into the Vatican's Index of Prohibited Books, and is correspondingly scarce, ultimately this text served as the foundation of the official Roman Vulgate. The illustrations of Noah's ark, the Tabernacle of Moses, and Temple of Solomon were widely copied. The general title page and the Prophetae are dated 1540; that of the New Testament is dated 1539; and that for the Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca & Latina Nomina . cum Interpretationis and Index is dated 1538. "The text was revised from additional MS sources; a list given at the end of the preface enumerates at least 16 MSS and 3 printed editions. This edition contains the first printing of the Prayer of Manasses, in Greek and Latin. It is the text of this monumental edition which became the foundation of the official Roman vulgate ." (Schreiber). The text of the Oratio Manassae is printed here for the first time (leaf v8v). This is a tall and generally well preserved copy with good margins. Darlow & Moule 6117; Renouard, pp. 48-9, no. 1; Copinger 275; Schreiber, Estiennes, 359; Adams B1022; Mortimer, French 16th cent., 68 Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, title stamped on the upper cover, lacks bosses, hinges and clasps, upper joint cracked, darkening to spine, other wear. Early vellum manuscript waste at inner hinges. Minor staining, minor foxing, a few scattered edge tears. Provenance: Christopher Jonas a Taubenheim [?] (early inscription mentioning commentary by Rabbi Moses ben Nahman Gerondi); Polling Monastery (armorial bookplate); Duplum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis; General Theological Seminary (stamps, bookplate) Printer?s device on title pages, woodcut illustrations in text, including 5 (full-page), ornamental initials. [10], 268; [1], 104 [i.e. 103, error in pagination omitting leaf 83]; 90; 92 ff. Collation: *10 a-z? A-I? K-L? Aa10 Bb-Mm? Nn? AA-KK? LL10 2a-2l? 2m? Early manuscript annotations. 1 vols. Folio (17x11-1/4 inches) Third edition, and the first with these illustrations. …

Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Text in two columns, 57 lines per page, rubricated, with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black (some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green); some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. (bound without first and last blanks). Copiously annotated (chiefly in O.T.) in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio. The second Bible printed by Sensenschmidt and Frisner at Nuremberg, dated 1476 at the end of the Notitia by Menardus, with generous margins and some idiosyncratic flourishes and decorations to the manuscript. At the foot of the first text leaf the manuscript ownership note of a brotherhood of monks in Gmünd. The second gathering includes a leaf where text on the verso is printed only in 44 lines, and an inserted half leaf stub printed one side only in one column. Four stubs of blanks are visible at the end of Esdra but the text is complete, resuming with Tobias. This copy bound without the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum as is often the case; that work appears frequently with Koberger editions of this period and "should perhaps be regarded as a separate work". And excellent and unsophisticated copy. ISTC ib00546000 (four other locations in N. America); GW 4221; Goff B546; Delaveau & Hillard 696. Provenance: W. A. Copinger (bookplate); General Theological Seminary, gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Dean Augustus Hoffman (bookplates and blindstamps) Original pigskin, stamped in blind, vellum manuscript waste supports used at inner hinges, last four leaves strengthened at gutter. Corners and bosses perished, edgeworn, some worming entering text at end; upper joint cracked and first two gatherings loosened. Vestiges of marginal tabs; a few paper. A bit rough, very good Text in two columns, 57 lines per page, rubricated, with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black (some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green); some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. (bound without first and last blanks). Copiously annotated (chiefly in O.T.) in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio.…

Zustand: very good. Auctoritate edita. Coloniæ Agrippinæ : sumpt. Hæred. Balthasaris ab Egmond, & Sociorum , 1743. Contemp. calf binding. [24], 894, [43] pp. 17x11 cm. With engraved title-page. Latin text. Library stamps on free endpapers. Binding shows some wear. Very good copy. - 4 copies in NCC (Amsterdam (2), Naastricht & Nijmegen). Condition : very good copy. Keywords : THEOLOGY, Bible.…