| Record ID | cp013234 |
| Voet reference number | 685 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3252893 |
| Uniform title | BIBLE: Editions in Latin |
| Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-frame:] □ BIBLIA, ‖ Ad vetustissima exem- ‖ plaria castigata. ‖ Quid in horum Bibliorum castigatione ‖ præstitum sit, subsequens præfatio la- ‖ tiùs indicabit. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXIX. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (170 × 110): *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-p⁸, Aa-Kk⁸; folios [1r-8v], 1r-303v, [304r-v], 1r-74v, [75r-80v] (Errors: first part: 75 for 73, 290 for 190, 245 for 254; second part: 74 for 64). All pages printed on two columns, separated by a line (except in second part folios 78-79) |
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| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 January 1558) [2r-2v]: F. Iohannis Hentenii Neckliniensis in Biblia Lovanii anno MDXLVII excusa atque castigata, praefatio [3r-4r]: Index testimoniorum a Christo et Apostolis in Novo Testamento citatorum ex Veteri… [4v]: Table (words in Hebrew) [5r-5v]: Hieronymi prologus Galeatus (words in Hebrew) [5v-8v]: Epistola Sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinum (words in Greek, marginals in italic type) 1r-303v: Text Old Testament (marginals in roman type and italic type) [304r-v]: Blank 1r-74r: Text New Testament (marginals in roman type and italic type) 74v-[77v]: Index Epistolarum et Evangeliorum (parts in italic type) [78r-79v]: Hebraicorum, Chaldaeorum, Graecorumque nominum interpretatio (on three columns) [79v]: EXCVDEBAT ANTVERPIAE CHRISTOPH. ‖ PLANTINVS, ANNO M.D.LXIX [80r-v]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 57.22KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeUniversity Library FreiburgBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBodleian LibrariesBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di RomaVatican Apolstolic LibraryAustrian National Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 89 (1569, no. 2) Masch, III, page 228 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3200 |
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| Note 1 | Set in the small nonpareille-type (5.8 Pica-points). |
| Note 2 | In July 1568 Plantin wrote to an unknown correspondent 'Je recommence l'impression de mes deux sortes de Bibles in 8⁰ et une autre in f⁰' (Corr., I, no. 143). Two of his compositors were working on a 'Bible nonpareil' in 8⁰ from 23 October 1568 till early April 1569 (Arch. 31, folios 59 and 111). |
| Note 3 | Of this Bible in 8, the Novum Testamentum was reprinted in 24mo: see no. cp013391. |
| Note 4 | Not listed in M 164 and M 296. |
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