Tēs kainēs diathēkēs hapanta : Euangelion. Kata Matthaion. Kata Markon. Kata Loukan. Kata Ioannen. Praxeis ton apostolon = Novum Iesu Christi D. N. Testamentum. Ex bibliotheca regia.

Accession number: 
PML 2020
Uniform title: 
Bible. New Testament. Greek. Estienne. 1550
Published: 
Lutetiae : Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi regii, regiis typis, M. D. L [1550]
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Description: 
[16] leaves, 272 (i.e. 268), 202 p., [1] leaf ; 33 cm
Notes: 

Printer's device on the title page (snake on vine) and verso of final leaf (olive tree).
"Excudebat Robertus Stephanus typographus regius Lutatiae Parisiorum, anno M. D. L. XVII. cal. IVL." --Colophon.
Epistles and apocalypse have separate title: Paulou tou apostolou epistolai. Pros Romaiois, Pros Korinthious, Pros Galatas, Pros Ephesious, Pros Philippesious, Pros Kolassaeis, Pros Thessalonikeis B [2], Pros Timotheon B [2] Pros Hebraious. Hai Katholikai epistolai. Iakobou, Petrou B [2], Ioannou B [2], Iouda. Apokalupsis Ioannou tou theologou. Ex Bibliotheca Regia.
Printed in the largest of the three fonts of Greek type designed by Claude Garamond.
This is the 3rd and most important of Estienne's editions, known as the Editio Regia.
Foliated and grotesque Greek initials in two sizes, with matching head-pieces.
Reprinted with corrections and more manuscript correlation of his 16mo editions of 1546 and 1549; marginal notations.
This edition was attacked by the Sorbonne and Estienne had difficulty getting it published; after publication it continued to cause trouble until after his removal from Paris later in the year.
Preliminary verse by Henri Estienne.

Binding: 
Red morocco, richly tooled by one of the Eves (possibly Nicholas?).
Provenance: 
With the stamp on t.p. of the Bibliothèque Silvestre; from the Firmin-Didot collection (1884).
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