Nouum instrumentu[m] omne / diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, no[n] solum ad graecam ueritatem, uerumetiam ad multorum utrius[que] linguae codicum, eorum[que] ueterum simul & emendatorum fidem, postremo ad probatissimorum autorum citationem, emendationem & interpretationem, praecipue, Origenis, Chrysostomi, Cyrilli, Vulgarij, Hieronymi, Cypriani, Ambrosij, Hilarij, Augustini, una cu[m] annotationibus, quae lectorem doceant, quid qua ratione mutatum sit ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Oecolampadius, Johann, 1482-1531.

Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527, printer.

Evans Bible Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Ross Bible Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. New Testament. Greek. Erasmus. 1516

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Cornerpieces (Furniture) (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding) -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Evans, Thomas Wiltberger, 1823-1897 (donor) (RBC copy)

Ross, T. Edward (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy 2)

Boswell, Alexander, Sir, 1775-1822 (autograph) (RBC copy 2)

Mounsey, Julia Boswell, -1905 (former owner) (RBC copy 2)

White, A. T. (autograph) (RBC copy 2)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 324, 136, 131-224 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 225-618, 669-672 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Novvm instrumentu[m] omne

Novum instrumentum omne

Fingerprint:

maut t.o? *-*- **** (3) 1516 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : In aedibus Ioannis Frobenij Hammelburgensis, mense Februario, anno MDXVI [February 1516]

Language Note:

Greek text and Erasmus' Latin version in parallel columns.

Notes:

Earliest published edition of the New Testament in Greek.

Imprint from colophon on leaf Ff8r, which reads: Basileae in aedibus Ioannis Frobenij Hammelburgensis Mense Februario. Anno. M.D.XVI. Regnante Imp. Caes. Maximiliano P. F. Augusto.

"Ioannes Frobenius suis typis excudebat"--Leaf A1r.

"The printing was ... partly under the supervision of Ioannes Oecolampadius"--Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Signatures: aaa⁶ bbb⁸ A-Z⁶ AA-DD⁶ a-h⁶ i⁸ k-t⁶ chi1 u-z⁶ aa-mm⁶ nn⁸ oo-zz⁶ Aa-Ee⁶ Ff⁸ (leaf t6 blank).

Leaf C1 signed "c" and leaf hh1 signed "h"; other occasional errors in signature marks.

Register on leaf Ff8r.

Text of leaves aaa2r and A1r each within 4-part woodcut border.

Woodcut printer's devices (title leaf and leaf Ff8r), initials (including 2 red initials on leaf a1r) and head-pieces (including 1 red head-piece on leaf a1r).

Printed marginalia.

"In Nouum Testamentum, primum ad Graecam ueritatem, deinde uetustissimo[rum] Latinae linguae codicum fidem, postraemo ad probatissimoru[m] scripto[rum] citatione[m] & enarratione[m] diligenter recognitu[m], adnotationes Erasmi Roderodami, in quibis ratio redditur, ueteris aeditione aliquot locus imutatae ...": Leaves t6r-Ff6r.

"Ioannes Oecolampadius pio lectori. S.": Leaves Ff6v-Ff7r.

Errata on leaf Ff7.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: all after p. 224 (2nd group) wanting, i.e. contains the text of the Bible only.

RBC copy: names of previous owners cut out or crossed out.

RBC copy 2 has some ms. underlines and a few early ms. marginal notes in text; ms. corrections to page numbers on leaves Ff4-Ff6; ms. bibliographical notes in ink (in Latin) and pencil (in English) on front free endpaper.

RBC copy 2: rubrication: leaves frame ruled in red ink; caption titles and chapter numbers underlined in red ink.

RBC copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by T. Edward Ross with his illustrated bookplate laid in.

RBC copy 2 has autograph ("Alex. Boswel") of Sir Alexander Boswell beneath ms. note ("19.") on front free endpaper.

RBC copy 2 has dated 19th-century autograph ("A.T. White June 1893") in pencil on front free endpaper.

RBC copy 2 has ms. sale note ("Auchinleck Sale June 23/26 1893 This[?] B 2 £6.15.0 13.6[?] &Epm[?]") in pencil on back free endpaper. A portion of the library of Sir Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, was sold by his granddaughter Julia Boswell Mounsey through Sotheby's on 23-26 June 1893.

RBC copy 2 bound in full blind-tooled leather over square-edge wooden boards; blind-stamped date ("1518") around small center blind-stamped floriate ornament on left board; date ("1518") at head and foot of blind-stamped center ornament composed of Ms on right board; evidence of cornerpieces (1 intact); evidence of 2 clasps on left board; 5 raised bands on spine; spine rebacked (gold-tooled spine panels; title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine); portion of an early Latin ms. parchment leaf from a copy of Decretales Gregorii IX (lib. 3, tit. 38, cap. 10-20) written in a Gothic bookhand used as front pastedown (main text ruled in plumb[?] (first line of text below top line) in 2 columns surrounded by commentary; text in dark ink with initials in red or blue, some with red or red and blue penwork extensions); portion of an early Latin ms. parchment leaf from a copy of Decretales Gregorii IX (lib. 3, tit. 42, cap. 3-5) written in a Gothic bookhand used as back pastedown (main text ruled in plumb[?] (first line of text below top line) in 2 columns surrounded by commentary; text in dark ink with initials in red or blue, some with red penwork extensions).

RBC copy 2: hinges of binding damaged; fore-edge of left board damaged; spine damaged at head and foot; fore-edge margin of both free endpapers torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

VD16 B 4196

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B1679

Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society 4591

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the selected portion of the celebrated Auchinleck library ; 765

University of Pennsylvania. Libraries. Ross Bible, 5

Contains:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Annotationes in Novum Testamentum.

OCLC:

187471110