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Bible in Spanish. New Testament
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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
- El Testamento Nuevo de Nuestro Senor y Salvador lesu Christo. Nueva y fielmente traduzido del original Griego en romance Castellano... Venice: Juan Philadelpho [Geneva, Jean Crespin], 1556
- ink,leather,paper
Small 8vo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins,; 129 x 80 mm). Woodcut device on title; occasional shaving to headlines. Contemporary vellum.
Provenance
George Benson Tatum (bookplate).
Literature
Formatting the Word of God 6.5; Darlow & Moule M 8468
Catalogue Note
Second edition of the New Testament in Spanish, translated by Juan Perez de Pineda. "The allegorical woodcut on the title page depicts a believer pointing heavenward to a wreath of laurel while a non-believer falls towards a hellfire. These figures are situated on either side of a large letter Y, the arms of which are symbolically wide on one side and slender on the other. The accompanying legend, a paraphrase of Matthew 7:13–14, translates as 'Narrow is the way of life, and wide is that of perdition'" (Formatting the Word).