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NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK AND LATIN: Novum testamentum omne, tertio iam ac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum . Basel: Johann Froben, 1522.
NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK AND LATIN: Novum testamentum omne, tertio iam ac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum . Basel: Johann Froben, 1522. Third edition of the New Testament in Greek, edited with Latin translation and commentary by Erasmus, from the Waldauf Foundation library of Hall, Tyrol. Folio (330 x 227mm). Greek text with Latin translation by Erasmus and some Hebrew type. Title within woodcut historiated border by Ambrosius Holbein woodcut on final leaf, woodcut borders, ornaments, and initials by Urs Graf (without Annotationes sometimes found together but usually bound separately, some worming occasionally affecting text leaves including title). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, original metal clasps (some worming). Provenance : some early annotations — Waldaufsche Stiftung, Hall, Tyrol, 1596 inscription, later library stamp [Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek]). The Erasmus translation and commentary of the Bible ‘formed the basis of the New Testament translations of both Luther and Tyndale and hence had profound influence on later Protestant versions of the Bible’. The Waldaufsche Stiftung of Hall, Tyrol, is one of the oldest libraries in the country and now largely preserved at Innsbruck (see E. Verdross-Drossberg, "Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein", Schlern-Schriften , 184 (1958), and K. Brunner, Katalog der Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek in Hall/Tirol , Munich 1983). PMM 46 (1516 original edition); Adams B-1681 (with Annotationes ); Darlow & Moule 4599 (with Annotationes bound in a non-uniform separate volume); VD 16 B 4198 ( New Testament only).