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BIBLE, New Testament, in Latin. Novum Testamentum Illustratum insignium rerum simulachris. [Paris:] Franciscus Gryphius, 1540.
16o in 8s (113 x 75 mm). Gryphius' griffin device (Renouard 413) on title, 90 large woodcuts (including repeats) and 16 smaller (including repeats). (Title with portion of fore-margin renewed, lower corner of e8 renewed.) Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1960.
Third Gryphius New Testament in 16o. The first was the 1537 edition with woodcuts only for the Acts and the Apocalypse. This fully illustrated "pocket" Testament was reprinted in four successive years: 1539, 1540, 1541 and 1542. Titles for the books in the Testament are printed within cartouches, and seven of these are designed with figures-the four Evangelists, Peter, John the Apostle and Jude. See Brunet V:745 (1542 ed.); Mortimer French 70 (1541 edition).
16o in 8s (113 x 75 mm). Gryphius' griffin device (Renouard 413) on title, 90 large woodcuts (including repeats) and 16 smaller (including repeats). (Title with portion of fore-margin renewed, lower corner of e8 renewed.) Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1960.
Third Gryphius New Testament in 16o. The first was the 1537 edition with woodcuts only for the Acts and the Apocalypse. This fully illustrated "pocket" Testament was reprinted in four successive years: 1539, 1540, 1541 and 1542. Titles for the books in the Testament are printed within cartouches, and seven of these are designed with figures-the four Evangelists, Peter, John the Apostle and Jude. See Brunet V:745 (1542 ed.); Mortimer French 70 (1541 edition).