- 18
Bible. Latin
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Biblia. (Lyon: Jean Mareschal, August) 1532
- Paper
folio (345 x 230mm.), title printed in red within woodcut border with vignette of St Jerome in his study at foot, full-page woodcut opposite first page of text, small woodcut illustrations within text, woodcut initials, canons printed in red, eighteenth-century green morocco, gilt border, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, occasional light damp-staining, a few leaves at end repaired at edges, extremities slightly rubbed
Provenance
Jesuits of Antwerp, inscription on title-page; L'Olivette, bookplate with monogram GO
Literature
Von Gültlingen, Mareschal 14
Catalogue Note
The woodcut of the Nativity scene is a very close copy of Hans Springinklee's woodcut for the 1520 Lyon edition of the Bible (Mortimer, Harvard French 63), with a different artist's monogram. The smaller woodcuts are more simplistic copies of those found in other Lyon bibles from this time produced by Mareschal, Crespin and Sacon (such as Mortimer, Harvard French 66, Crespin's 1529 bible).