La Saincte Bible, contenant le vieil & nouveau Testament. Traduicte de Latin en François par les theologiens de ’Uniueristé de Louuain, comme appert par l’epistre suyuante d’un des premiers d octeurs d’icelle. Reueuë diligemment, & de nouveau corrigee outre les precendentes impressiones. Derniere edition. Lyon, Iean Royaulx, 1620. 4to. (16),+ 960,+ 273,+ (76) pp. A small tear on page 181 in the second part. Printed within double frame, title in black and red. Illustrated with several small wood cuts in text. Very fine contemporary red morocco fan binding, richly gilt spine with four gilt frames with fleurons in the middle, boards with gilt “à la eventail” decor with cornerpieces in the shapes of quarter circles around a central ”wheel”, within triple gilt frames, board edges and all edges gilt. From the library of Victor von Stedingk, with his bookplate and signature (and some ink annotation on fly-laf), a pasted auction entry after Henrik Sederholm 1943, and with the library stamp from Erik Wirén, “Bibl. Wiréniana Solåkraensis” on the title page.
USTC 6902799 (6 copies). This edition not in Darlow Moule but compare nr. 3743. Very fine contemporary fan-binding, often also called ”wheel binding” or ”À la eventail”. This bible is a later reprint of the so called Louvain Bible (selon l'edition Latine), which was first published in Lyon in 1547. It is a revised translation to French made by members of the theological faculty in Lyon and then promulgated by the Catholics in France as based on the true and complete Latin translation by Saint Jerome, in opposition to other huguenotte protestant translations. Several editions were published.
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