Bible in Greek

Super-Chancery Folio (315 × 208 mm). Collation: [*⁴ (title, dedication to Card. Giles of Viterbo, contents)]; a-z &⁸ aa⁴ (Genesis-Job, aa⁴ blank); bb-cc⁸ dd¹⁰ (Psalms, dd10 blank); ee-qq⁸ rr¹⁰ ss-tt⁸ uu⁶ (contents, dedication to Daniele Renier, capitano of Verona, Proverbs-Maccabees); xx-zz && aaa-bbb⁸ ccc⁴ ddd-ggg⁸ hhh¹⁰: (contents, dedication to Erasmus, New Testament; hhh8r quire register, colophon; hhh9 blank; hhh10v Aldine device): 448 leaves, including blanks aa4, dd10, hhh9, quires signed with parallel Roman and Greek characters, a1r-hhh7r foliated 1-451, with errors. Red and black printing, Greek and Italic types, woodcut initials and headpieces, chapter initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). Stains on title-page and following leaves. Nineteenth-century russia, gilt spine, blind-stamped supralibros, marbled edges. 

Hon. George M. Fortescue, 1791–1877 (armorial supralibros)

Formatting the Word of God 5.3; Darlow &  Moule 4594; Adams B976; Aldine Press (UCLA) 163

First edition of the Bible in Greek, long planned by Aldus, but prevented by his death in 1515. The Septuagint (Old Testament) text was apparently based on manuscripts from Card. Bessarion’s library at San Marco, Venice. The New Testament, dedicated to Erasmus, used the latter’s text from the 1516 Basel first edition.