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BIBLE, Slavonic. Biblia sirech knigi vetkhago i novago saveta. [Ostrog: Ivan Federov, 12 August] 1581.
2° (305 x 190mm). 627 (of 628) leaves (lacking leaf number 90 from part 2). Title, part headings and tables printed in red and black, engraved initials and tail-pieces, engraved arms of Konstantin Ostrozhkii on title verso, and Federov's engraved device in colophon. (Title re-margined, title and first and last few leaves repaired with some text supplied in facsimile, a few further occasional and mostly marginal repairs, spotting, damp-stain.) Rebound re-using contemporary calf covers, front cover panelled in gilt and blind with an eagle centred within an arabesque, back cover diced and panelled in blind with diamond pattern in main field (re-backed, extremities repaired, endpapers, clasps, catches and straps renewed). Provenance: S.G. Shchapov (stamp on last leaf).
THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BIBLE IN SLAVONIC. This landmark of Russian printing was prepared under the auspices of Konstantin, Prince of Ostrog, who obtained from Moscow a copy of the manuscript Bible of Gennadius. He also collected a large number of Greek and Slavonic manuscripts and editions, and with the help of assistants 'he tested the Slavonic text by the Greek and sometimes by the Latin, and substituted modern expressions for those which were obsolete or unintelligible and corrected errors' (Darlow & Moule). Variant 'B' with the colophon in Greek and Slavonic dated 12 August 1581. Cyrillic Books 35; Darlow & Moule 8370.
2° (305 x 190mm). 627 (of 628) leaves (lacking leaf number 90 from part 2). Title, part headings and tables printed in red and black, engraved initials and tail-pieces, engraved arms of Konstantin Ostrozhkii on title verso, and Federov's engraved device in colophon. (Title re-margined, title and first and last few leaves repaired with some text supplied in facsimile, a few further occasional and mostly marginal repairs, spotting, damp-stain.) Rebound re-using contemporary calf covers, front cover panelled in gilt and blind with an eagle centred within an arabesque, back cover diced and panelled in blind with diamond pattern in main field (re-backed, extremities repaired, endpapers, clasps, catches and straps renewed). Provenance: S.G. Shchapov (stamp on last leaf).
THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BIBLE IN SLAVONIC. This landmark of Russian printing was prepared under the auspices of Konstantin, Prince of Ostrog, who obtained from Moscow a copy of the manuscript Bible of Gennadius. He also collected a large number of Greek and Slavonic manuscripts and editions, and with the help of assistants 'he tested the Slavonic text by the Greek and sometimes by the Latin, and substituted modern expressions for those which were obsolete or unintelligible and corrected errors' (Darlow & Moule). Variant 'B' with the colophon in Greek and Slavonic dated 12 August 1581. Cyrillic Books 35; Darlow & Moule 8370.
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