La Bible qui est toute la saincte escriture du Vieil & du Nouveau Testament : autrement L['] ancienne et la nouvelle alliance /
Marot, Clément,1495?-1544.
Bèze, Théodore de,1519-1605.
Gray, Jean,1588-1640,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.2899
Wemyss, Jean,1629-1715,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.2899
Douglas, Archibald,Earl of Forfar,1653-1712,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.2899
A La Rochelle : De l'imprimerie de H. Haultin par Corneille Hertman,
1616.
Another edition of that of Geneva, 1588.
The title page is engraved.
The Psalms, translated by Marot and Bèze, have a separate engraved titlepage, dated 1606; the leaves for the Psalms are not numbered.
Woodcut iniitals and copius woodcut notation in The Psalms.
Inscriptions in a 17th-century hand: “Jean Wemyss” on the recto of the first flyleaf and “Janna Wemyss” in the same hand on the verso of the following leaf, “Forfar” appears on the verso of the title page in a different hand. L I W blind-stamped at centre of front and back boards of contemporary red morocco. The Jean/Janna Wemyss inscribed on the free endpapers is either Jean Gray (d. 1640), the wife of John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss (1586-1649), or her granddaughter, Lady Jean Wemyss (d. 1715), eldest daughter of David Wemyss, second earl of Wemyss. Lady Jean Wemyss' eldest son was Archibald Douglas, who became 1st Earl of Forfar in 1661, which could explain the 'Forfar' inscription on the verso of the title page.
France La Rochelle.