Accession number:
PML 856
Uniform title:
Bible. French. Geneva. 1561.
Published:
A Lyon : par Jan de Tournes, M.D.LXI [1561].
Description:
2 volumes in 1 : ill. ; 37 cm (fol)
Notes:
For variations see Eys: Bibles, 92. Also see Cartier: Tournes, 430.
New Testament has special t. p.: Le Novveav Testament De Nostre Seignevr Et Sevl Savvevr Iesvs Christ.
Ruled in red.
Both Old and New Testaments are illustrated with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon.
A Genevan version, with the prefaces of Jerome and Apocryphal books added.
In place of a lectionary, the New Testament (last section, 215 p.) is followed by: Recueil d'aucuns mots & manieres de parler difficiles du Nouueau testament, auec leur declaration.
Binding:
16th-century French (Lyon) red calf, gold tooled in interlace and foliate pattern, with painted black and silver decoration and pointille background, and tooled and painted flat spine; repaired by Duprez Lahey.
Provenance:
James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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