Biblia, siriech knigi sviashchennago pisaniia vetkhago i novago zavieta
Contributors: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, artist; Weigel, Christopher, fl. 1712, engraver
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1751
Place of publication: Saint Petersberg
Language: chu
Work titles: Bible. Church Slavic. 1751
Notes: This is the first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible" published during the reign of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1761) and represents the so-called "corrected text" of the first edition of the Bible issued in Slavonic characters by Ivan Fedorov in Ostrog, (Volhynia) in the year 1581. See Darlowe and Moule.

Engraved title-page, port. of the Empress and vignettes made in Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersberg, in 1751.

MB (R-B) copy is extra illustrated with about 400 copper engravings from the Historiae Celebriores Veteris et Novi Testamenti ... a Christopher Weigel. Nuremberg, 1712. Plates signed by artists Caspar and Jan Luyken and engraved by C. Weigel.

Darlowe & Moule 8373.