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Biblia : habes in hoc libro prudens lector utriusq[ue] instrumenti novam tran[s]latione[m] aeditum / à reverendo sacr[a]e theologiae doctore Sancte Pagnino Luce[n]si concionatore apostolico praedcatorii, ordinis, necnon & librum de interpretamentis Hebraicorum Aram[a]eoru[m] Graecorumq[ue] nominum, sacris in literis contentoru[m], in quo iuxta idioma cuiuscu[m]q[ue] linguae, propriæ ponuntur interpretationes, derivationes ac eor[um] compositiones adamussim disquiruntur, citantur loca, & codicu[m] Latinoru[m] varietates subnotantur, & corrupta ac depravata propriae restituu[n]tur scriptioni, acce[n]tus quoq[ue] per impositas virgulas co[m]mo[n]strant[ur],singulis in capitibus quot sint versus in Hebraeis codicibus, rece[n]setur ut pauca sint desideranda. Habes & in libri fronte eiusdem epitomēn .i. abbreviationem librorum historialium veteris instrumenti, & erratorum castigationes quas quisq[ue] exacte conspiciens suum corrigat librum, duas Ioannis Francisci Pici Mirandulae, domini egregias Epistolas ad eundem Epistolam translatoris ad Clementem septimum Pontificem maximum, & proëmium in quo maximis efferuntur laudibus sacrae literae.

Accession number
PML 17773
Published
Lugduni : Per Antonium du Ry ... impensis Francisci Turchi, & Dominici Berticinium Lucensium, & Iacobi de Giuntis, [1528].
Notes
"The earliest Latin version of the Bible, in modern times, made from the original Hebrew and Greek ... This Bible is the earliest edition in which the text is divided into numbered verses ... The Apocrypha here, for the first time in a printed Latin Bible, forms a separate section": cf. Darlow & Moule. This ed. was used by Coverdale for his English version of 1535.
Colophon: Veteris ac Noui Instrume[n]ti nova translatio per Reverendu[m] sacrae Theolo. docto. Sanctem Pagninu[m] Lucen. nuper aedita, explicit. Impressa est autem Lugduni per Antonium du Ry, calcographum diligentissimu[m] impensis Francisci Turchi, & Dominici Berticinium Luce[n]sium, & Iacobi de Giuntis bibliopolae ciuis Flore[n]tini. Anno D[omi]ni 1527, die uero .xxix. Januarii.
Includes indexes.
Not in Brunet.
Printer's device inside the title border.
The general title is dated 1528. The colophon gives the date 29 Jan. 1527 [i.e. 1528].
Title border at the top, a pope seated among eight cardinals, and at the sides SS. Jerome, Augustine, Gregory, Thomas Aquinas, etc.
Title in red and black.
Woodcut initials; some historiated.
Description
[30], 355, [1], 98, [70] leaves ; 27 cm (4to)
Binding
Dark blue morocco.
Classification
Department