Textus Biblie hoc in opere hec insunt.

Lyon: Johanem Crespin, 1529

Folio: 10 by 14"  (355 x 250 mm).


Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders.

Title printed in red and black , with small woodcut of St. Jerome within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper.

Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders  and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders.
Decorative woodcut initials.
The Eusebian canons (leaves D1-D3) are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.

18th century calf, morocco lettering piece. 

Some wear to binding (which is from 18th century), minor worming to part of the leaves

Text in Latin

Adams V-474; Mortimer French 538; STC 442.


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