Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

[Bible. Latin] Biblia, Paris, Estienne, 1545, eighteenth-century mottled calf

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BIBLE. LATIN. Biblia quid in hac editione praestitum sit, vide in ea quam operi praeposuimus, ad lectorem epistola. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545

Estienne’s second octavo edition controversially prints the Zurich version of the text in parallel columns with the Vulgate for the first time. Memoranda in the margins are supposedly based on notes by friends of the editor from lectures by F. Vatable, chair of Hebrew and a Royal Lecturer at the Collège de France. However, these are likely composed in part by Estienne, betraying aspects of his own religious tendencies.

8vo (185 x 125 mm). Roman type, 73 lines. collation: *⁸ **⁴ a-t⁸ v⁴ aa-xx⁸ y⁴ aaa-ooo⁸ ppp⁴ A-S⁸ T¹² V-Y⁸ Z⁴ AA-RR⁸ SS⁴ TT-VV⁸ xx-zz⁴: 802 leaves (of 808, lacking *3-8). Woodcut printer's device on title page, first word of title within decorative cartouche. (Title page slightly soiled, first two leaves slightly chipped at fore-edge, leaf e1 torn at head with some loss of text, a few other small marginal tears, small ink stain on TT4, other occasional light staining.)

binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf (195 x 140 mm), spine gilt in compartments, red edges. (Binding slightly rubbed and scraped, joints cracking, spine slightly torn at head.)

provenance: "Joseph Nauton(?)", later inscription on title page, plausibly Joseph Nauton (1749-1823), parish priest of Nérac during the Revolution and professor of theology. acquisition: Purchased in 2005 from Hugues de Latude, Paris. references: USTC 149294; Darlow & Moule 6127