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BIBLE, N.T., Ethiopic. Testamentum novum cum epistola pauli ad Hebreostantium, cum concordantiis Evangelistarum Eusebii & numeratione omnium verborum eorundem. Missale cum benedictione incense carae etc. Alphabetum in lingua... gheez. Edited by P. Gualterius, M. Victorius and others. Rome: Valerius and Ludovicus Doricus for P. Comos,
1548-9.
(227 x 160 mm). Printed in red and black. Woodcut title device of arms of Pope Paul III, ornamental woodcut borders, some incorporating woodcut portraits of saints, 7 woodcut vignettes in text and 6 half-page woodcut scenes at pp. 131v-132v. (Some browning and foxing.) Modern quarter vellum, marbled boards (a trifle soiled). Provenance: ownership inscription on title-page ("BB. Casa. Biblioteca communis"); stamp "CVPF".
First edition of the New Testament in Ethiopic, edited by three Abyssinian monks of the Monastery of San Stefano at Rome. This copy contains the Latin title-page and preface, not present in all copies. Owing to manuscript imperfections, the editors themselves had to supply portions of Acts, translating from the Latin and Greek. Darlow & Moule 3562.
1548-9.
(227 x 160 mm). Printed in red and black. Woodcut title device of arms of Pope Paul III, ornamental woodcut borders, some incorporating woodcut portraits of saints, 7 woodcut vignettes in text and 6 half-page woodcut scenes at pp. 131v-132v. (Some browning and foxing.) Modern quarter vellum, marbled boards (a trifle soiled). Provenance: ownership inscription on title-page ("BB. Casa. Biblioteca communis"); stamp "CVPF".
First edition of the New Testament in Ethiopic, edited by three Abyssinian monks of the Monastery of San Stefano at Rome. This copy contains the Latin title-page and preface, not present in all copies. Owing to manuscript imperfections, the editors themselves had to supply portions of Acts, translating from the Latin and Greek. Darlow & Moule 3562.