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Biblia utriusque Testamenti iuxta vulgatam translationem, & eam, quàm haberi potuit, emendatissimam: additis rerum praecipuis in locis iconibus. Interpretatio nominum Hebraicorum. Index epistolarum & evangeliorum totius anni. Index rerum & sententiarum utriusque testamenti.

Accession number
PML 196814
Published
Lugduni : apud Hugonem a porta, M.D.XXXVIII [1538].
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2017.
Notes
Ninety-four woodcuts, including 85 by Holbein and one generally attributed to him.
Printer's mark on t.-p. & p. [46] at end; the word "Biblia" in the title is xylographic, in a cartouche.
Illus. include Old Testament woodcuts by Hans Holbein.
Colophon in cartouche on p. 569: Excvdebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres. 1538.
Description
[8], 569, [46] pages , illustrations (woodcuts) ; 34 x 24.5 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Contemporary inscription, abraded (title page) and contemporary Latin inscriptions (final leaf).
Provenance
G. Net[?]yer, signature, abraded but visible under UV (title page); Armandus Claudius Desains, printed prize inscription, 13 August 1763 (bound in before title page); Gaspard Ernest Stroehlin (1844-1907), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 12-16, 1912, part II, lot 445 for 710fr.; Bassenge (Berlin), Auk. 109, 11 April 2017, lot 1064; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, April 2017.
Binding
18th-century French sprinkled calf over heavy paper boards (34 x 24.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Classification
Department