Lot 81
  • 81

Viccars, John.

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Decapla in Psalmos: sive commentarius ex decem linguis mss. et impressis... cum specimine linguae Cophticae, Pers. & Ang. mss... London: Robert Young, 1639
folio (308 x 210mm.), additional engraved title-page by Wenceslaus Hollar, A3 a cancel, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, early nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, marbled edges, Ggg2 torn in upper margin (just touching headline), extremitied rubbed, joints cracked

Provenance

Bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall by the Rev. Franke Parker, M.A., Rector of Luffincott, Devon, 1883, bookplate

Literature

STC 24696; Pennington, Hollar, 2690

Catalogue Note

first edition. John Viccars (c. 1604-1653?) started his career as a clergyman by being imprisoned for heresy, but after recanting he travelled widely across Europe, consulting scholars and manuscripts for this, his only published work.