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Novum Instrumentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, 1516.
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Novum Instrumentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, 1516.
First published edition of the New Testament in Greek, from the library of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Edited by Erasmus, with his commentaries and parallel Latin translation, it formed the basis for the subsequent translations of Luther and Tyndale. Although the New Testament volume of the Complutensian Polyglot was printed as early as 1514, it was not circulated until about 1520, due to the fact that Erasmus had been granted a Papal sanction and an exclusive privilege by Maximilian I. Erasmus's edition ‘obtained a much wider circulation, and exercised a far greater influence than its rival on the subsequent fortunes of the text’ (Darlow and Moule 4591). Adams B-1679.
Two parts in one, folio (273 x 194mm). With blank leaf t6 present, but lacking the Annotations. Greek and Roman types, parallel columns of Greek and Latin. Publisher’s woodcut device on title, woodcut full historiated borders by Urs Graf on two pages, numerous woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, the head-piece and two large initials blocked in red at beginning of second part (repaired 18cm tear along centre of A2, woodcut borders both a little cropped, title-page browned and erroneously partially re-titled (‘Testa’) and dated (‘1517’) in ink, dampstaining more pronounced earlier on). Early 19th-century speckled calf (rebacked preserving most of the backstrip, lightly rubbed). Provenance: extensive marginal annotations in three different hands, in ink and pencil: one contemporary, one English 17th-century and another English 19th-century – Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843; armorial bookplate with hand-written shelfmark within the cartouche); W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel, annotated ‘16.111’); by descent.
Novum Instrumentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, 1516.
First published edition of the New Testament in Greek, from the library of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Edited by Erasmus, with his commentaries and parallel Latin translation, it formed the basis for the subsequent translations of Luther and Tyndale. Although the New Testament volume of the Complutensian Polyglot was printed as early as 1514, it was not circulated until about 1520, due to the fact that Erasmus had been granted a Papal sanction and an exclusive privilege by Maximilian I. Erasmus's edition ‘obtained a much wider circulation, and exercised a far greater influence than its rival on the subsequent fortunes of the text’ (Darlow and Moule 4591). Adams B-1679.
Two parts in one, folio (273 x 194mm). With blank leaf t6 present, but lacking the Annotations. Greek and Roman types, parallel columns of Greek and Latin. Publisher’s woodcut device on title, woodcut full historiated borders by Urs Graf on two pages, numerous woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, the head-piece and two large initials blocked in red at beginning of second part (repaired 18cm tear along centre of A2, woodcut borders both a little cropped, title-page browned and erroneously partially re-titled (‘Testa’) and dated (‘1517’) in ink, dampstaining more pronounced earlier on). Early 19th-century speckled calf (rebacked preserving most of the backstrip, lightly rubbed). Provenance: extensive marginal annotations in three different hands, in ink and pencil: one contemporary, one English 17th-century and another English 19th-century – Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843; armorial bookplate with hand-written shelfmark within the cartouche); W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel, annotated ‘16.111’); by descent.
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