BIBLIA SACRA Vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. jussu recognita, atque edita.
Date: Venice,apud Haeredem Damiani Zenari,1605
Subject: Bible
900,00 €
In 8° (mm 240x175), pp. (32), 1083, pp. (44 of index). Frontispiece in red and black, editorial mark with fleur-de-lis in red within medallion at title page and colophon, historiated capilettera within silographic vignettes and text in two columns, about two hundred framed vignettes illustrating the various books. Full eighteenth-century calf leather gilt title to spine, blue-sprayed boards.
Beautiful seventeenth-century edition according to the Vulgate corrected and revised under the pontificate of Clement VIII.
The tome is divided as follows: Book of Genesis, Book of Exodus, Book of Leviticus, Book of Numbers, Book of Deuteronomy, Book of Joshua, Book of Judges, Book of Ruth, Book of Samuel, the two books of Paralipomena, the two books of Ezra, Book of Tobiah and Judith, Book of Esther, Book of Job, and Book of Psalms last; Book of Proverbs, Book of Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs of Solomon, Book of Wisdom, Book of Ecclesiasticus, Prophecy of Isaiah, Prophecy of Jeremiah, Prophecy of Ezekiel, Prophecy of Daniel, Prophecy of Hosea, Prophecy of Joel, Prophecy of Amos, Prophecy of Jonah, Prophecy of Micah, Prophecy of Habakkuk, Prophecy of Zechariah, Prophecy of Malachi, Books of Maccabees, the four Books of the Gospels, Acts and Letters of the Apostles. Index is placed at the end. Fairly good copy, internally generally fresh, even if a bit short at sup. margin, a water stain at lower corner at beginning and end, title page trimmed at lower engraving edge, Latin manuscript note at opening welt, last paper with defects at outer margin of endpaper.
Peeling and defects to corners, edges, and sup. cuff.
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