''Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta. Novum Testamentum. Ex Biblotheca Regia''
Lutetiae : Ex Officina Roberti Stephani Typographi Regii Typis Regius.
[Paris : Robert Estienne]
Dated : M.D.XLVI. [1546]
Joannes Crucius' copy with his marginalia and a single signature dated 1610 to the title page.
Johannes Crucius, or Jean de la Croix (1560 – 1625), was a Dutch theologian. He was born in Lille, France as the son of Jacobus de la Croix, a Walloon preacher of Middelburg, among other cities. He was the brother of Jacobus Crucius. Crucius studied in Geneva and on 28 September 1586 he matriculated at the Heidelberg University a year after Franciscus Gomarus, along with the students Abrahamus Vandermylen of Dordrecht, Meinardus ab Idzaerda of Friesland, and Andreas ab Hiddema of Friesland. He then matriculated at Leiden in 1589 and the following year he was selected to succeed Jean Taffin as Walloon preacher at the Waalse Kerk, Haarlem, where he is buried.
He married Elisabeth Stoock and their first child was baptised 7 June 1591. Their son Jacobus became a doctor, and their sons Nicolaas (1595-1643) and Johannes (1598-1666) became preachers like their father. From 1592, Crucius was the representative of the Wallonian church at the Walloon Synod in Middelburg and in 1618 & 1619 he was their representative at the Synod of Dort. He is known for his translations of religious works From Latin and Dutch into French, most notably by Antonius Walaeus. He died in Haarlem.
16mo. ([.25'' tall x 3.50'' wide x 1.75'' thick]
Titles with woodcut basilisk devices, woodcut decorative intials, colophon f. with woodcut printers device verso. Title lightly soiled, a few water marks or light stains/spotting else a good, solid and mainly clean copy. Crucius' marginalia throughout the copy in very small neat hand. Lacking a single leaf only in the second part (Zz1) else complete.
A variant issue of the first Estienne Greek New Testament with an excellent provenance. It is the first book printed in Claude Garamond's second and smallest Greek type. [Adams B1657: D&M 4616; Mortimer 74; Renouard 66:2; Schreiber 90]
Signature to the title by Joannes Crucius along with his marginalia.
Engraved armorial bookplates of The Hon.Charles Hope Weir (1710-1791), Scottish Policitian, who did the Grand Tour with architect Robert Adam and W.E.Hope Vere, Craigie Hall [Engraved bookplate]
Bound in 17th century full calf binding.
Finely rebacked with original gilt calf leather relaid.
Gilt lettering and gilt tooling to the compartments. A little insignficant wear to the corners. Text block with gauffered edges.
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