Accession number:
PML 15438
Uniform title:
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1540.
Published:
Parisiis : Ex officina Roberti Stephani ..., 1540.
Description:
4 v. in 1 ([10], 268; [1], 104 [i.e. 103]; 90; 92 leaves) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 43 cm
Notes:
"Oratio Manassae" also in Greek: v. 1, leaf 159 (verso). This is here printed for the first time.
Contains Jerome's prefaces.
First published in Paris, 1528.
Large paper copy.
Leaf 83 (2nd sequence) omitted from numbering.
Printer's device on each of the four title pages. Large criblé initials designed by Geoffroy Tory, as are the printer's devices.
Robert Estienne's third folio Bible, being a reprint with additions and corrections of his 1528 edition. It became the foundation of the official Roman Vulgate.
The general t.p. and the t.p. of pt. 2 (Prophetae) are dated 1540; the New Testament t.p. is dated 1539; and the t.p. to the supplementary matter is dated 1538.
Title vignette: device of Robert Estienne.
Binding:
16th-century French calf, tooled and inlaid.
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