Johannes BRENZ
Biblia sacra
apud viduam Ulrici Morhardi • [Chez la veuve Ulrich Morhard]|Tubingae [Tübingen] • (Tübingen) 1564|17 x 25 cm|2 volumes reliés
2 bound volumes
Rare edition of the Latin Protestant bible with St Jerome’s commentaries, specially conceived for the students of the University of Tübingen and more particularly those of the Klosterschulen (or convent schools) in the Duchy of Wurtemberg (this was the first Bible printed in the Duchy).
40 lines per page with repeating initials. One subsidiary title for the Prophets and another for the New Testament, all with printer’s device.
A great many contemporary ink underlinings to text as well as a manuscript list of the prophets on the title of volume two and a summary of the different parts on an endpaper of the first. The typographical elegance of the work is worth m
Rare edition of the Latin Protestant bible with St Jerome’s commentaries, specially conceived for the students of the University of Tübingen and more particularly those of the Klosterschulen (or convent schools) in the Duchy of Wurtemberg (this was the first Bible printed in the Duchy).
40 lines per page with repeating initials. One subsidiary title for the Prophets and another for the New Testament, all with printer’s device.
A great many contemporary ink underlinings to text as well as a manuscript list of the prophets on the title of volume two and a summary of the different parts on an endpaper of the first. The typographical elegance of the work is worth m
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