Accession number:
PML 129968
Uniform title:
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1583.
Published:
Genevae : Apud Petrum Santandreanum, M.D. LXXXIII [1583]
Credit:
Gift of Hans E. Tausig in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr., 2007.
Description:
8, 435, 131, [27] leaves : ill., map ; 18 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Title vignette.
A re-issue (with new main title-page and preliminary leaves) of the Vulgate Latin Bible published by the same publisher in 1574.
N.T. has separate title-page reading "D.N. Iesv Christi Nouum Testamentum, siue fœdus", with imprint "Ex officina Francisci Stephanj, M.D.LXVII" [i.e. 1567].
Map of the Mediterranean world, verso of leaf 52 of the New Testament.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Binding:
Full calf by Williamson of Eton.
Provenance:
Seventeenth-century ownership inscriptions of Mark or Marcus Steele (who probably commissioned the binding), Mordecai Steele, and Elizabeth Thomas Patricke.
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