New Testament in Greek

Octavo (163 × 105 mm). Greek and Roman types, printer’s device, initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). Collation: [a]² b-z A-K⁸ L⁴ M-N⁸ O⁴ P⁸ Q⁶ R-X⁸ Y⁴ Z AA-BB⁸ CC⁶ DD⁸ EE² FF-GG⁸ HH¹⁰ II⁸ KK¹⁰: 423 leaves, lacking KK10 blank but preserving H8 blank (at end of Gospels). b1r-KK9 foliated 1-414. First two leaves with extended lower margins. Early eighteenth-century French red morocco, spine richly gilt, marbled endleaves, edges gilt. 

Earls of Macclesfield (North Library bookplate with Macclesfield arms and motto, “Sapere aude”; Sotheby's London, 11 April 2006, lot 2300)

Darlow & Moule 1534; Adams B1652

Octavo (163 × 105 mm). Greek and Roman types, printer's device, initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). Collation: [a]2 b-z A-K8 L4 M-N8 O4 P8 Q6 R-X8 Y4 Z AA-BB8 CC6 DD8 EE2 FF-GG8 HH10 II8 KK10: 423 leaves, lacking KK10 blank but preserving H8 blank (at end of Gospels). b1r-KK9 foliated 1-414. First two leaves with extended lower margins. Early eighteenth-century French red morocco, spine richly gilt, marbled endleaves, edges gilt.
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A revised edition of the Greek text, based on Erasmus’s 1522 third edition, but with some variants taken from the Complutensian Polyglot, and others which must derive from manuscript sources. The work, including Colines’ title-page imprint, is entirely in Greek. Quires II-KK contain Greek lives of the evangelists and prologues (hypotheses).