Biblia Sacra utriusque Testamenti, et Vetus quidem post omnes omnium hactenus aeditiones
By: opera D. Sebast. Munsteri euulgatum, & ad Hebraicam ueritatem quoad fieri potuit redditum ... ; nouum uero ... opera D. Eras. Rot. ultimo recognitum & aeditum ; additi sunt è LXX. uersione et Apocryphi libri siue Ecclesiastici, qui habentur extra canonem
Publisher: Apud Christophorum Froschouerum
Published: 1539
Place of publication: Tiguri
Language: lat
Translated from: heb; grc; arc
Number of pages: 297
Other titles: Biblia Sacra vtrivsqve Testamenti, et Vetvs qvidem post omnes omnivm hactenus aeditiones
Work titles: Bible Latin 1539
Notes: Edited by Konrad Pellicanus; contains Sebastian Münster's Latin translation of the O.T., the Apocrypha in the Latin version from the Complutensian Polyglot, and Erasmus's Latin translation of the N.T.

Apocrypha has special t.p.; N.T. has half-title.

Signatures: A⁸ B¹⁰ a-z⁸ A-N⁸ O⁶ aa-hh⁸ ii⁴ Aa-Kk⁸ Ll¹⁰ (O6, ii4, Ll10 blank).

Many errors in foliation, including: 293 misnumbered 297.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device).

Text in double columns.

"De libris sacris et eorum dignitate et praestantia" by Heinrich Bullinger: leaves [2]-[15] (lst count).

VD 16 B2611

Adams B1021

Purchase; Patrick King; 6 November 2003; 2003-166; $4250 (Henry Saltonstall Howe Fund).

Gift; J.W. Buxton; Oct.-Nov. 1820; Bi 35.39*.

Extensively annotated throughout in German and Latin by a mid-16th century German Lutheran; the endleaves contain birth and baptismal records, ca. 1596-1633, of the family of Gerardus Solis of Waldenberg.

Ms. inscription on title page: The Gift of the Rev. Mr. Preston to Granville Sharp 1778.

Bound in contemporary roll-tooled German pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, 2 brass fore-edge clasp plates preserved; in case, 26 cm.

Some contemporary ms. annotations in Latin on preliminary leaves; a few contemporary ms. annotations in English in text.

Bound in crimson buckram; wanting the final blank leaf.