Accession number:
PML 855
Uniform title:
Bible. French. Geneva. 1567.
Published:
[Geneva] : De l'Imprimerie de François Estienne, M.D.LXVII [1567]
Description:
1 volume (4 parts) : ill., fold. pl., maps (part fold.) ; 17 cm
Notes:
Title vignette; double red line border; side notes.
A revision of Olivetan's version, prepared by the direction of the ministers of Geneva.
Contains music.
Part 2 has caption title only: Les livres apocryphes.
Part 3 has special t.p. only: Le Nouueau Testament, c'est à dire, La Nouuelle Alliance de Nostre Seigneur Iesus Christ.
Part 4 contains Introduction; Les Pseaumes mis en rime françoise par Clement Marot, & Theodore de Beze; La forme des prieres ecclesiastiques; Le catechisme, Des articles de la foy.
Binding:
Contemporary (Swiss?) calf, gilt panel (interlace, foliate, and masks) stamped with inset central gilt over panel, possibly by the Kings' Binder (see Nixon). Gilt, gauffered, and painted edges.
Provenance:
Johann Georg Bünzel (1679-1734), bookplate (front pastedown); Georg Jakob Schwindell (1684-1752), of Nuremberg, inscription, 15 August 1728 (front endleaf 1 recto); W.H. Corfield (1848-1903), his sale, Sotheby's London, 21 Nov. 1904, lot 257; Toovey collection.
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