116 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, Græce ex SINAITICO codice ed. Tischendorf, 8vo. facsimile, hf. morocco 117 Hebrew. HAGIOGRAPHA; as follows: THEHILLIM (Psalms with Kimhi's commentary) Lips., 1865 0 3 Napoli, Joseph bar Jacob, 247 MISHLE (Proverbs with Immanuel's commentary) (Nap.) Khaiim bar Itzhak (247) Iob (with commentary of Gersonides) Daniel and Ezra (with Nehemiah) with commentaries In 1 vol. smallest folio, hf. bd. (ibid. 247) Naples, 1487 The number of leaves in this volume is 328 instead of 332-the first four leaves of Psalms being deficient. The copy also does not comprise the 40 leaves of Chronicles which issued from the same press. This is an edition of extreme rarity. 4 4 118 THE PROPHETS (Great and Lesser) with Kimbi's commentary, in Hebrew, 2 vols. small folio, in red morocco cases Sontzino, 245 (1485-6) 21 0 Perfect, consisting of 166 and 294 leaves. The second volume was issued without 119 a date, but it cannot have been posterior by many months to Vol. I, which has a Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, with Kimhi's 1 16 cum Masora magna & parva Aben Esræ, Kimchi, Levi Gerson, Saadie Gaon, Jeschaja, et notis ex 1620 4 10 121 another copy on ordinary paper, 4 vols. in 2; 1620-TIBERIAS sive commentarius Masorethicus triplex, 1665 5 parts in 2 vols. folio, vellum 122 BIBLE in Hebrew, 8vo. black roan 123 OLD TESTAMENT, Hebrew and English, 4to. calf Vienna, 1870 0 2 125 the same, MS., written in Europe on a roll of vellum 10 feet long by 8 inches wide, with painted architectural ornaments forming divisions between the columns of writing; on a wooden roller 126 BIBLICAL THESAURUS; or, a literal translation and critical analysis of Finisse lapocalise. . Lower down: Rime di Hieronymo Squarzafico de Alexandria coposte a laude di questo uolume | Le celere sagitte or mai Apollo | deponer uogli. . Column 2: . . Impresso fu questo uolume ne lalma pa- | tria de Venecia ne glanni di la salutifera i | carnatione del figluolo di leterno et omni- | potete dio. | M.CCCC.LXXI. IN. KALEN- | DE. DE. AVGVSTO. Folio, printed in double columns, 50 lines to the column; the inner margins of the first few leaves mended; old calf, from the Sussex and Ashburnham collections Venice, 1471 14 14 0 This is one of the rarest of all printed Bibles. There was no copy in the Caxton Exhibition, and there is none in the British Museum. There is a bad copy in the Spencer-Rylands library which wants the last leaf of the Table (fol. 7 of Vol. I), this last leaf of Table containing the references to foll. cc.xxxiiii-cc.lvii of the text. The Rime of Squarzafico mention the printer "quel spira gientile | di Vindelin che na corona doro" for this unrivalled piece of work. 28 MALLERMI'S BIBLE. Fol.1 a blank cut away. Fol. 2a: Prologo Col. 1: Comincia il prologo o veramente epistola dil | beato hieronymo sopra di la bibia dignamente vulgarizata p il clarissimo religioso duon nicolo de mallermi.. Fol. 5a: Registro.. Fol. 6a: Genesis. . Fol. 417b, col. 1 . . A laude. . fu impresso qsto volume ne lalma patria de venetia per Octauiano scotto da modena.. MCCCCLXXXI Col. 2: Prohemio nela vita del sactissimo z vergine perpetuo Ioseph.. The legend of St. Joseph ends on fol. 418b col. 2. Foll. 419-429 containing the Table are missing. Small folio, in an old German stamped pigskin binding Venice, 1481 5 5 0 The Sunderland copy (with the 11 leaves of table) fetched £26. 10s. 29 MALLERMI ILLUSTRATED BIBLE. Fol. 1a: BIBLIA VULGARE HISTORIATA. 16: Registro de la Biblia .. 2a: Tabula de la prima parte . . 6b.. Comincia il prologo ueramente epistola dil beato Hieronymo . . 9a : GENESIS (N) EL PRINCIPIO DIO CREOE EL ciclo: & la terra. . 404a: A laude & gloria. Qui finisse la Bibia uulgare hystoriata stampata ne lalma Citta de Venetia per Giouanne Ragazo di monteferato A instantia di Luchantonio di Giunta. . M. CCCCLXXXXII. . Incomincia la legenda del . . sancto Ioseph . . 4956 Finisse la vita de sancto Ioseph.. L. A. 406a: Tabula de la seconda parte de la Bybia.. 4106: . . Lavs Deo Finis. Stout small folio, 383 beautiful woodcuts in contemporary colouring; very fine and very large copy in the original boards, covered with stamped leather, and mounted with centre and corner-pieces of brass 1492 250 00 One of the rarest books of the famous Venetian school of design, which brought out in the Poliphilo its finest example. Many of the cuts are marked with the initial b, which (in the Poliphilo) used to be read as revealing the hand of Bellini, and in which a later interpreter finds the name of Barbari (Jacopo dei Barbari). "One of the most important, and most richly illustrated, of the Venetian vignette-books... The designer succeeded in producing a series of pictures full of grace and charm. . . Several of the illustrations are marked with a small 'b,' a signature which, so far as we know at present, appears here for the first time." So says Dr. Lippmann, who goes on to state that the designer of the Italian cuts imitated, but recomposed and improved, the engravings in the 1483 German Bible. If this were the case, the pictures changed a good deal more than their climate when they crossed the Alps. The metamorphosis was magical. 130 BIBLIA. Biblia vulgare | Nouamente impressa. Corretta: 7 | Hystoriata. Con le Rubrice | Capitulatione. This intitulation printed in red within a fine arabesque border, and above a woodcut of St. George signed FV Foll. 2-8 contain Tabula and prologues with a large woodcut of the days of Creation on the reverse of leaf 8. Genesis begins (within a border) on fol. 9, which is the first leaf of a series numbered (I)-CCVIII ending with Psalms. The Proverbs begins a second series of numbered leaves. I-CXCVI. On CXIV end Maccabees; the New Testament begins on CXV, and the Apocalypse ends on CXCVa, first column, the last line of which is Qui finisse la Bibia uulgare hystoriada. CXCVa, col. 2 to CXCVIa, col. 2 contain the Vita de sancto Ioseph. CXCVIb to (CCI)a contain the Tabula. On (CCI)b are the Registro and the colophon: Stampata in Vineggia per Helisabetta de Rusconi. | Nel anno del nostro signore. M.D.XXV. Adi | XXIII. del mese di Decebrio. Regnante lo iclyto Principe Andrea Griti Small folio, printed in Roman letter, double columns, with hundreds The cuts are copies by Florio Valvassore of the illustrations of the 1492 131 LA BIBLIA qvale contiene i sacri libri del vecchio testamento, tradotti ; 2 vols. in 1, small 4to. the titles printed within woodcut borders, and the last page of the volume occupied with a fine and very large woodcut; in the original binding of oaken boards covered with smooth dark morocco gilt and painted with a Grolieresque mosaic pattern (rebacked), the edges gilt and goffered; a fine example of its kind, with the bookplate of the Duke of Sussex, from the Ashburnham collection Venice, 1538 Splendid copy of a rare Bible which was considered heterodox and placed upon the Index as a prohibited book. Collation: A-LLL in eights, MMM in ten, in-six, Aa-Oo in eights, Pp in six 132 BIBLIA VVLGARE novamente stampata. . Venetiis. M.D.XXXXI. Paris, 1881 This is the Codex of which Libri sold some leaves to Lord Ashburnham, which were afterwards returned to the Lyons Library. 134 BIBLIORUM SACRORUM Latina versiones antiquæ seu Vetus Italica et cæteræ quæ cum Vulgata Latina & cum Textu Græco comparantur. Accedunt . . notæ opera & studio D. PETRI SABATIER. Remis. . M.DCC.XLIII. 3 vols. folio, old veau fauve gilt, with the crest of the Prince de Soubise in the panels on the back 135 the same, Large Paper, 3 vols. folio, old French calf gilt £ 8. 60 18 18 50 1 10 1743 20 0 136 THE BOOK OF DEER [ancient MS. of the Latin Gospels by an Irish hand], edited for the Spalding Club by John Stuart, 4to. 22 plates of Celtic Art; hf. morocco Edinb., 1869 2.10 37 THE MAZARINE BIBLE, 2 vols. folio, PRINTED ON VELLUM (Mentz, Gutenberg, 1453-55) 5000 0 0 See a more detailed description in my Catalogue of Monuments of Printing. : 38 BIBLE, LATIN. Fol. 1 blank. Fol. 2a: Prologus. Column 1 Incipit epla sacti Hieronymi ad Paulinu | pbrz. de oib' diuine historie libris Capl'3. I [F] Rater am | brosius tua mi | himunuscula pferens detulit | simul . Fol. 5a: Genesis, column 1: Incipit liber genesis q dicitur hebraice bresith. . Fol. 340 blank. Fol. 341a: Mattheus Column 1: Incipit epistola beati Hieronymi ad | Damasu papā i qttuor euangelistas... Fol. 424b, column 2: . . Biblia impressa Venetijs opera atq3 impensa Nicolai Ien | son Gallici. M.cccc.lxxvj. Fol. 425a, column 1: Incipiunt interpretationes hebraicoru nominum secudum ordinem alphabeti... Fol. 469a, column 2: Expliciunt interpretatio nes hebraicorú nominu. | Laus deo. The reverse blank. Fol. 470a: Registrum biblie | . . Small folio, Gothic letter, 470 leaves printed in double columns, 52 lines to the column; the initials painted, and the second, fourth, and fifth leaves decorated with pretty illuminated borders (the historiated initials accompanying these being a little rubbed); old French red morocco extra, gilt edges (Derome le jeune) Venice, Jenson, 1476 36 0 0 A perfect copy of Jenson's first Latin Bible, which in its usual condition (that is, when wanting the leaf of Register) is not very rare; but which when it contains that leaf (as in the present instance) is a rarity of the highest order. 139 BIBLE, LATIN. Fol. 1 a blank cut away. Fol. 2a: Prologus | Incipit epl'a sacti Hieronymi. . Fol. 5a: Genesis | Incipit liber genesis. Fol. 406b.. Biblia ipressa Venetijs opera atq3 impēsa Nicolai Ienson Gallici .M.cccc.lxxix. Fol. 407: Incipiunt interpretatiões.. Fol. 452: Registrum biblie Small folio, printed in double columns, 51 lines to the column; William Herbert's name is written on the fly-leaf. 9 9 0 140 BIBLIA cũ cōcordantijs veteris & noui testamēti z sacroru că- | nonum. . This intitulation printed in red in three lines over a large woodcut (coloured). Colophon on the last page of Apocalypse: .. Impressa autem Lugduni : per M. Iacobum Sacon. Expensis notabilis viri Antonij Koberger . Millesimo quingentesimo decimosexto. Die v'o decimoseptimo mensis Decembris... This is followed by one blank leaf and 25 leaves of Interpretationes. Folio, printed in Gothic Letter, double columns, with 144 woodcuts (all coloured), impressed from blocks of the Mallermi Bible; slightly wormed; red morocco gilt Lyons, 1516 6 60 141 BIBLIA. Fol. 1a: Biblia. Fol. 2a, heading: Prologus in. bibliam. Column 1: Incipit epistola sacti Hieronymi.. Fol. 4b, column 1: [I]N principio creauit Fol. 432a col. 2: Explicit biblia Venetiis impressa per Georgium de riuabenis Mantuanum | al's Parente. Anno dni. Mcccclxxxvij | iij. Cal. Martij. Under this is the Registrum. Foll. 433-466 contain the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum. | Small 4to. PRINTED ON FINE VELLUM, with hundreds of illuminated initials and two beautiful decorative borders; superbly bound by Clarke for Theodore Williams in olive £ s. d morocco lined with red morocco, richly gilt inside and out A lovely example of Venetian vellum printing, done on the purest Mr. Copinger's bibliography needs to be corrected by the statement that the first leaf of the book is the title which he evidently did not believe in, and that it consists of no more than the single word "Biblia." The book is printed in double columns, 52 lines to the column, and has signatures as follows: a-z, ʊ, c, 2, A-P, in eights; Q in six; R-Z, AA-DD in eights; EE in ten; aa-cc in eights; dd in ten. 142 BIBLIA SACRA . . roy. folio, with engraved title, and numerous large Antverpia, Ex officina Christophori Plantini MDLXXXIII (1583) 15 0 0 143 VETVS TESTAMENTVM secvndvm LXX Latine redditvm . . Romae Rome, 1588 144 COPINGER (W. A.). Incunabula Biblica; or the first half century of the Latin Bible, being a bibliographical account of the various editions between 1450 and 1500. Folio, with 54 full-page facsimile plates on the scale of the originals; cloth Only 250 copies were printed. 1892 350 212 6 145 Norse or Icelandic. NORSE BIBLE, First Edition. Fol. 1, title, printed in red and black within a woodcut border: Biblia | pad Er, 011 | Heilög Ritning, vtlögd | a Norrænu. | Med Formalum Doct. | Martini. Lutheri. Prentad a Holum, Ap | Jone Jons Syne | MDLXXXIIII. Small folio, 622 leaves; somewhat soiled and mended at beginning and end, like nearly all copies of this very rare book, but COMPLETE; red leather Holum, 1584 20 0 0 another copy, COMPLETE, in wonderfully fine and clean condition; in the original wooden boards covered with old calf the same, 3 vols. in 1, sm. folio, defective, hf. bd. Even imperfect copies of this rare volume are valuable. 15*. 146 1584 30 0 0 1584 2.10 0 147 BIBLIA pad er Öll Heilog Ritning, vtlögd a Norrænu. Med Formaalum Holum in Iceland, 1644 14 14 0 The size of the paper is now 15 x 9 inches, and must have been before it was Inscriptions on the flyleaves show that this copy was presented in 1649 by the When this copy was made up for the Bishop to present to Knudsson in 1649, the |