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Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, iuxta vulgatam editionem maiori quàm antehac vnquam Doctorum studio, ad veritatem Hebraicam & probatissimorum exemplarium fidem emendata : Cum figuris & descriptionibus etiam chorographicis, quibus variorum aedifi

Accession number
PML 129968
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1583.
Published
Genevae : Apud Petrum Santandreanum, M.D. LXXXIII [1583]
Credit line
Hans E. Tausig in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr.,
Description
8, 435, 131, [27] leaves : ill., map ; 18 cm (8vo)
Notes
Title vignette.
A re-issue (with new main title-page and preliminary leaves) of the Vulgate Latin Bible published by the same publisher in 1574.
N.T. has separate title-page reading "D.N. Iesv Christi Nouum Testamentum, siue fœdus", with imprint "Ex
Binding
Full calf by Williamson of Eton.
Provenance
Seventeenth-century ownership inscriptions of Mark or Marcus Steele (who probably commissioned the binding), Mordecai Steele, and Elizabeth Thomas Patricke.
Classification
Century
Department