[BIBLE] Sanctum Iesu Christi Evangelium. Acta apostolorum.

New miniature edition of the Latin Vulgate, following the first which seems to have appeared in 1531, published by Yolande Bonhomme, but which was not illustrated. An edition is also recorded in 1538 by Simon de Colines, without illustration. Title page within an engraved Renaissance frame. A specific title page for the Epistles: Pauli aposto - l'epistolae.
The work is illustrated with 30 woodcut figures, detailed as follows: 4 figures for the Gospels (saints with their attributes in medieval or Renaissance scenes) and numerous historiated initials depicting the Passion narrative. A frontispiece for the Acts of the Apostles (repeated for Epistola Petri apostoli prima). A frontispiece for the Epistles (Saint James as preacher, walking, with a fortified city in the background, dressed in 16th-century clothing and bearing the Saint James shell on his hat and cape (figure repeated for Epistola canonica Iacobi apostoli). A frontispiece for Epistola beati Ioannis. 21 allegorical figures for the Apocalypse, including the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, a rain of stars, the seven-headed crowned beast...
Edition absent from English and French catalogues, from the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The figures differ from the multiple illustrated editions published by Gryphe from 1539 to 1542. Absent from the Hollis catalogue at Harvard.
Contemporary full glazed brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, unlettered. The binding having shifted, the fore edge formed by the leaves creates a bulging protrusion that extends beyond the boards. Title page very browned. Right corner of the first three leaves missing, in margin, not touching text but having taken away a small part of the Renaissance frame of the title page. Last leaf detaching. Index leaves browned, otherwise generally fresh, with some leaves bearing small brown stains. Missing before the Apocalypse four leaves of Epistola beati Ioanni Apostoli secunda.
Rare illustrated miniature edition of the New Testament.