La Bible
Subtitle: qui est toute la saincte Escriture du Vieil & du Nouueau Testament, autrement L'Anciene & la Nouuelle Alliance. Le tout revueu & conferé sur les textes Hebrieux & Grecs par les pasteurs & Professeurs de l'Eglise de Geneue
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1588
Place of publication: A Genevè
Language: fre
Number of pages: 548
Work titles: Bible French Geneva 1588
Notes: French Geneva version. A fresh revision, prepared by B.C. Bertram, with the assistance of T. de Bèze, A. La Faye, I. Jacquemot, S. Goulart and I. B. Rotan. According to Petravel, Bertram chiefly followed the guidance of Münster and Tremellius.

This Bible of 1588 came to be regarded as the standard text. The cost of publication was defrayed by private generosity, and the book was issued in three sizes--folio, quarto and octavo.

Vignette on the title-page represents an angel leaning against a cross, trampling on a skeleton, and holding a book in the left hand with the inscription "La parolle de Dieu demeure eternellement"; with "Advertissement" on verso. Prefixed is "Epistre," and list of books. Preface by Jean Calvin.

Text in double columns, with chapter-headings, arguments and copious marginal references. Head and tail pieces; initials. With the Apocrypha. Revelation followed by, "Interpretation de quelques mots et noms propres."

BM, L.12.e.8.

Darlow & Moule, 3736.

Van Eys, 179.