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Novum Testamentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, March 1519.
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Novum Testamentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, March 1519.
Second edition of Erasmus’ New Testament in Greek, apparently owned by Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), German knight, scholar, poet and Protestant reformer. With marginal annotations in another contemporary hand that bear witness to a close study of the text of the Bible, which in this edition closely follows that first edited by Erasmus for publication in 1516. Comprising his commentaries and parallel Latin translation, it became the basis for the subsequent translations of Luther and Tyndale. The 1519 edition expands upon its predecessor: Erasmus enlarges certain sections by composing new material, as well as adding the Lives of the Evangelists by Sophronius, introductions to the Gospels by Theophylactus, and a letter from Pope Leo X, dated 10 September 1518, declaring his pleasure that a second edition was to be published. The Annotations were separated from the New Testament, and printed as an independent volume, not present with this copy. Adams B-1680; D & M 4597 (with the Annotations).
Two parts in one volume, folio (314 x 201mm). Greek and Roman types, italic types for marginalia, parallel columns of Greek and Latin. Woodcut full historiated borders on title, two following pages, and openings of three books, including one by VG opening Matthew, further ornamental four-part borders, half-page woodcut by HF, small text woodcut, woodcut canon tables, woodcut headpieces, historiated and decorated initials, including a set of Byzantine Greek initials, printer's device on final verso (2A1 rehinged, woodcut and margins on 2Iv a little torn and repaired with some loss of detail to the cut, outer margin of woodcut border to Mathew closely cropped, some leaves slightly dampstained, a couple of wormtracks to margins at very start and end, earlier sewing holes evident in gutter at beginning). Modern pigskin. Provenance: ?Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523 ; ‘W. Huttonus est huis libri verus possessor non erat ipse deus’ on f6 and signed ‘W Hutten’ on verso of final leaf) – profuse marginal annotations in Latin in a 16th-century humanist hand – John ?Farmer (‘Jo[hn] Farmar ex aula Rait’,17th-century ownership inscription added to title) – ‘[T]ylney’, possibly the Tylney family of Hampshire (17th-century English ownership on title) – Jo[hn] Brown (19th-century ownership inscription on title) – Sotheby’s, 23 November 1972, lot 649 – W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel, annotated ‘16.99’); by descent.
Novum Testamentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536). Basel: Johann Froben, March 1519.
Second edition of Erasmus’ New Testament in Greek, apparently owned by Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), German knight, scholar, poet and Protestant reformer. With marginal annotations in another contemporary hand that bear witness to a close study of the text of the Bible, which in this edition closely follows that first edited by Erasmus for publication in 1516. Comprising his commentaries and parallel Latin translation, it became the basis for the subsequent translations of Luther and Tyndale. The 1519 edition expands upon its predecessor: Erasmus enlarges certain sections by composing new material, as well as adding the Lives of the Evangelists by Sophronius, introductions to the Gospels by Theophylactus, and a letter from Pope Leo X, dated 10 September 1518, declaring his pleasure that a second edition was to be published. The Annotations were separated from the New Testament, and printed as an independent volume, not present with this copy. Adams B-1680; D & M 4597 (with the Annotations).
Two parts in one volume, folio (314 x 201mm). Greek and Roman types, italic types for marginalia, parallel columns of Greek and Latin. Woodcut full historiated borders on title, two following pages, and openings of three books, including one by VG opening Matthew, further ornamental four-part borders, half-page woodcut by HF, small text woodcut, woodcut canon tables, woodcut headpieces, historiated and decorated initials, including a set of Byzantine Greek initials, printer's device on final verso (2A1 rehinged, woodcut and margins on 2Iv a little torn and repaired with some loss of detail to the cut, outer margin of woodcut border to Mathew closely cropped, some leaves slightly dampstained, a couple of wormtracks to margins at very start and end, earlier sewing holes evident in gutter at beginning). Modern pigskin. Provenance: ?Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523 ; ‘W. Huttonus est huis libri verus possessor non erat ipse deus’ on f6 and signed ‘W Hutten’ on verso of final leaf) – profuse marginal annotations in Latin in a 16th-century humanist hand – John ?Farmer (‘Jo[hn] Farmar ex aula Rait’,17th-century ownership inscription added to title) – ‘[T]ylney’, possibly the Tylney family of Hampshire (17th-century English ownership on title) – Jo[hn] Brown (19th-century ownership inscription on title) – Sotheby’s, 23 November 1972, lot 649 – W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel, annotated ‘16.99’); by descent.
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