Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata
Subtitle: Hebraea, chaldaea, graeca & latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, vrbium, fluuiorum, montium, cæterorumq́ue locorum quae in Biblijs leguntur, restituta, cum latina interpretatione, ac locorum e cosmographis descriptione
By: Quid in horum Bibliorum castigatione praestitum sit, subsequens praefatio latius indicabit
Series: Books printed in the Low Countries before 1601 -- r.233
Publisher: B. Gravius
Published: 1547
Place of publication: Lovanii
Language: lat; arc; gre; heb
Number of pages: 375
Work titles: Bible Latin Vulgate 1547
Notes: Title vignette (Holy child in the midst of a flaming sun, with legend: In sole posvit tabernacvlvm svvm); initials.

First edition of the Louvain Bible. "Practically a reprint of R. Stephanus' Bible of 1538-40, with certain modifications of the text and marginal matter." It includes as other editions of the Vulgate of this period do "Liber Esdre [!] tertius" and "Liber Esdrae quartus". For description cf. Brit. and foreign Bible society, Hist. catalogue, pt. III, p. 936-937, no. 6129.

Imperfect: t.-p. slightly mutilated, mended; 3 leaves following t.-p. (Privilegium, 1 p.; Præfatio, 2 p.; Index testimoniorum, 3 p.); blank leaf after fol. 375 (end of O.T.), and blank leaf at end of N.T. after fol. 95 wanting.

Book plate: Ex Bibliotheca ecclesiæ collegiatæ lateranensis ad S. Nicolaum prope Passavium.

Coll. (B. Gravius; J. Hentenius; Hieronymus presb., s.)