BIBLE, in Greek -- \kPanta ta kat' ejoxhn kaloymena Biblia ueias dhladh Grafhs palaias te, kai neas\K. Sacrae Scripturae Veteris, Novaéque omnia . Edited by Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529) and Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1467-1536). Venice: Andreas Torresanus at the Aldine Press, February 1518. Aldine 2° (324 x 212mm), 3 parts in one volume. Collation: [1 4 ] (1r title and printer's anchor-and-dolphin device, 1v blank, 2r Torresanus's dedicatory letter to Cardinal Antonius Aegidius Canisius of Viterbo, 2v blank, 3r-4r tables of contents of the three parts, 4v blank); a-z & 8 aa 4 (Genesis-Job, aa3v-4 blank), bb-cc 8 dd 10 (Psalms, dd10 blank); ee-qq 8 rr 10 ss-tt 8 uu 6 (ee1r list of books, ee1v letter by Federicus Asulanus to Daniel Renerius, ee2r-uu6v Song of Solomon-Maccabees); xx-zz && aaa-bbb 8 ccc 4 ddd-ggg 8 hhh 10 (xx1r list of books, xx1v blank, xx2r letter by Franciscus Asulanus to Erasmus, xx2v lives of the Evangelists, xx3r-hhh7v New Testament, hhh8r register and colophon, hhh8v-10r blank, hhh10v printer's woodcut device). 445 leaves (without the three blanks). Types 9:90Gk (text), the third Aldine Greek cut by Francesco Griffo, possibly modelled on Marcus Musurus's hand (Barker p. 59); 89bR (dedications). Double column, 55 lines and headline. Title, first device, woodcut headpieces and large decorative initials opening each book PRINTED IN RED; from Acts of the Apostles onwards the woodcut headpieces and initials printed in black. Ruled in red, perhaps at the time of rebinding. (A few very minor soil-marks.) English gold-tooled blue hard-grain morocco over thick pasteboard, multiple fillets around sides and compartments of spine, Aldine device blocked in centre of the covers, endpapers watermarked "J Green & Son", gilt edges [binding ca. 1830, perhaps by C. Lewis]. Provenance : possibly George Hibbert (1829 sale, lot 1029, described as ruled, blue morocco, gilt leaves, #6 18s to Payne); Beriah Botfield (Payne & Foss, Acquisitions p. 8 "Aliud exemplar. Fol. L.P. ruled with red lines. Blue mor" 25 gns.) EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE SEPTUAGINT, printed after but published before the Greek Old Testament in the Complutensian Polyglot (lot 2); second edition of the Greek New Testament, in Erasmus's recension and set from Froben's editio princeps (lot 3). The O.T. was edited by Aldus's father-in-law and successor as director of his famous printing shop, Andreas Asulanus, who boasts in the dedication to have collated numerous and very ancient codices. In the N.T. he deviates from Erasmus's readings in less than two dozen places. Although Aldus Manutius had died in 1515 and Marcus Musurus in 1517, it is almost certain that this edition of the Greek Bible had already been planned by them; Musurus mentioned it in 1515 to Jean Grolier as one of the tasks that remained to be done (see also lot 50). RARE in fine and complete condition. D & M 4594; Renouard 84.8; Isaac 12878; Adams B-976. Botfield 39-40.
BIBLE, in Greek -- \kPanta ta kat' ejoxhn kaloymena Biblia ueias dhladh Grafhs palaias te, kai neas\K. Sacrae Scripturae Veteris, Novaéque omnia . Edited by Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529) and Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1467-1536). Venice: Andreas Torresanus at the Aldine Press, February 1518. Aldine 2° (324 x 212mm), 3 parts in one volume. Collation: [1 4 ] (1r title and printer's anchor-and-dolphin device, 1v blank, 2r Torresanus's dedicatory letter to Cardinal Antonius Aegidius Canisius of Viterbo, 2v blank, 3r-4r tables of contents of the three parts, 4v blank); a-z & 8 aa 4 (Genesis-Job, aa3v-4 blank), bb-cc 8 dd 10 (Psalms, dd10 blank); ee-qq 8 rr 10 ss-tt 8 uu 6 (ee1r list of books, ee1v letter by Federicus Asulanus to Daniel Renerius, ee2r-uu6v Song of Solomon-Maccabees); xx-zz && aaa-bbb 8 ccc 4 ddd-ggg 8 hhh 10 (xx1r list of books, xx1v blank, xx2r letter by Franciscus Asulanus to Erasmus, xx2v lives of the Evangelists, xx3r-hhh7v New Testament, hhh8r register and colophon, hhh8v-10r blank, hhh10v printer's woodcut device). 445 leaves (without the three blanks). Types 9:90Gk (text), the third Aldine Greek cut by Francesco Griffo, possibly modelled on Marcus Musurus's hand (Barker p. 59); 89bR (dedications). Double column, 55 lines and headline. Title, first device, woodcut headpieces and large decorative initials opening each book PRINTED IN RED; from Acts of the Apostles onwards the woodcut headpieces and initials printed in black. Ruled in red, perhaps at the time of rebinding. (A few very minor soil-marks.) English gold-tooled blue hard-grain morocco over thick pasteboard, multiple fillets around sides and compartments of spine, Aldine device blocked in centre of the covers, endpapers watermarked "J Green & Son", gilt edges [binding ca. 1830, perhaps by C. Lewis]. Provenance : possibly George Hibbert (1829 sale, lot 1029, described as ruled, blue morocco, gilt leaves, #6 18s to Payne); Beriah Botfield (Payne & Foss, Acquisitions p. 8 "Aliud exemplar. Fol. L.P. ruled with red lines. Blue mor" 25 gns.) EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE SEPTUAGINT, printed after but published before the Greek Old Testament in the Complutensian Polyglot (lot 2); second edition of the Greek New Testament, in Erasmus's recension and set from Froben's editio princeps (lot 3). The O.T. was edited by Aldus's father-in-law and successor as director of his famous printing shop, Andreas Asulanus, who boasts in the dedication to have collated numerous and very ancient codices. In the N.T. he deviates from Erasmus's readings in less than two dozen places. Although Aldus Manutius had died in 1515 and Marcus Musurus in 1517, it is almost certain that this edition of the Greek Bible had already been planned by them; Musurus mentioned it in 1515 to Jean Grolier as one of the tasks that remained to be done (see also lot 50). RARE in fine and complete condition. D & M 4594; Renouard 84.8; Isaac 12878; Adams B-976. Botfield 39-40.
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