La Bibbia di Borso d'Este
Subtitle: ms. Lat. 422-423, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, Modena : Ferrara, seconda metà del XV secolo.
Contributors: Toniolo, Federica.; Crivelli, Taddeo, fl. 1451-1476.; Marone, Pietro Paolo, fl. 1455-1461.; Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana.
Publisher: F.C. Panini
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Modena
Language: lat
Subjects: Borso d'Este Bible.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian -- Italy -- Ferrara.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Italy -- Ferrara.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Facsimiles.
Genres: Facsimiles.
Other titles: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.
Notes: Facsim. volumes in Latin (Vulgate version); commentary in Italian.
Presented to the Library of Congress on the occasion of its Bicentennial by the Embassy of Italy.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes (in v. 2 of the commentary)
Full-color facsimile, imitating to the maximum the physical makeup of the original created 1455-1461 for Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
Title and imprint from colophon printed on final flyleaves of the facsim. volumes.
Title pages of the commentary volumes, a teamwork of several authors, read "La Bibbia di Borso d'Este : commentario al codice"; both printed and copyrighted by F.C. Panini in 1997.
Art-historical studies (by Federica Toniolo) in the commentary volumes identify at least 11 fifteenth-century artists who took part in the Bible's decoration (Taddeo Crivelli and others); ms. text all by the Milanese calligrapher Pietro Paolo Marone.
"La presente edizione in facsimile è stata realizzata dalla Franco Cosimo Panini Editore di Modena in collaborazione con l'Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani ... L'opera, indivisibile, comprende due volumi di facsimile e due volumi di commentario."
Vol. 1 of the facsimile contains the historical (except Maccabees) and the sapiental books; v. 2, the prophets, the Maccabees, and the New Testament; included are the traditional prologues (by Jerome and/or others), and, at end of v. 2, the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.
The two facsimile volumes are issued in drop-down boxes 44 x 35.5 cm; commentary volumes in one case.
Edition limited to 750 copies.
LC has copy no. 145.