TYPE: Book

DIMENSIONS: Folio: 36 x 25 cm, [xviii] + 268ll. + [xvii].

COMPONENTS: Embellished with title-page illustrating the 6 days of Creation, a half-page wood-cut of King Solomon, a 3/4 page woodcut of the Nativity, as well as 121 small wood-cuts in text with ornamental borders. Eusebius' Canons are printed in red and black.

CONDITION: Bound in later full blind-tooled calf with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine; scuffing to binding. title-page with a couple repairs at bottom margin; a fair amount of browning to leaves, some marginalia and scoring in a contemporary hand, a couple leaves with small smudges. Last leaf bound out of order but complete (save for perhaps the blanks).

NOTES: Not in Darlow & Moule or Adams.

LANGUAGE

Latin Hebrew

ITEM ID: 1170

Latin Bible with Depiction of a Native American

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DATE

Year: 1527

Decade: 1520s

Century: 16th (1501-1600)

EDITION: 1st

Richly illustrated early Latin Bible, with supplemental teaching aids such as a Hebrew etymological dictionary, letters of introduction by St. Jerome, Eusebius of Caesarea’s Canons, and side note references taken from Josephus’ Antiquities and the Jewish Wars. This edition includes one of the earliest depictions of a Native American (Leaf CXXI). Biblie hoc in opere hec insunt. Concordantie tam ex veteri et nouo testamento sacrisque canonibus. Habes candide Lector hec omnia ex vetustissimis exemplaribus hac editione castigatiora reddita. Lyons: Joannem Crespin, 1527. First Edition.

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