ORIGINAL TITLE: La Biblia. Que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento.

TYPE: Book

DIMENSIONS: 315x202 mm.

COMPONENTS: [12], 268 [i. e., 269]; 67, 88, [1] leaves. Folio; modern mottled calf

CONDITION: covers slightly warped; title soiled, torn and restored in blank upper margin and lower outer corner, scattered light dampstains, repaired clean tear in outer margin of O4, hole in last leaf repaired with slight text loss.

NOTES: Sale 2256 Lot 25. Lorenço Iacobi. Darlow & Moule 8475 (noting leaf found in some copies addressing the Northern Provinces and Maurice of Nassau, not present here). From the collection of Alfonso Cassuto.

LANGUAGE

Spanish

ITEM ID: 680

Second Edition of the First Bible in Spanish

Collector's Favorites, Religious

Bibles, Christianity

DATE

Year: 1602

Decade: 1600s

Century: 17th (1601-1700)

EDITION: 2nd

Second edition of the first complete Bible in Spanish, edited by Cipriano de la Valera translated by Cassiodoro de Reina, which originally appeared in Basel in 1569. This is also the first complete edition of Valera’s revision of the Reina translation, of which the New Testament had appeared separately in 1596.

ARTISTS

Name: Cipriano de la Valera
Type: Editor
Name: Cassiodoro de Reina
Type: Translator

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