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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. CHARLES CALDWELL RYRIE
New Testament in Greek & Latin, ed. Erasmus
'NOUUM TESTAMENTUM OMNE, MULTO QUÀM ANTEHAC DILIGENTIUS AB ERASMO ROTERODAMO RECOGNITUM, EMENDATUM AC TRANSLATUM … ADDITA SUNT IN SINGULAS APOSTOLORUM EPISTOLAS ARGUMENTUM PER ERASMUM ROT.' BASEL: JOHANN FROBEN, MARCH 1519
Median folio (309 × 208 mm), Collation: Aa-Kk6 (title-page, dedications, tractates of Erasmus, canon tables, “Soloecismi”, canon tables, etc); a-z A-Z6&8 (New Testament; Froben to the reader, errata, quire register, colophon, device): 344 leaves, Aa2v-Kk6v paginated 4-120; a2r-&7v paginated 2-566. Rubricated red and blue (paragraph marks). Greek and Roman types, woodcut headpieces, borderpieces and initials, two full-page allegorical title borders, woodcut columns for the canon tables. Lower margin of title-page extended, scattered browning and stains, marginal worming in last ten leaves. Diced russia gilt, gilt turn-ins, dark brown paper endleaves, edges gilt, by Roger Payne, in brown buckram chemise and slipcase; spine laid down.
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12,000
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