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Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benoit, Jean, 1484?-1573, editor.

Guillard, Charlotte, -1557, bookseller, printer.

Desbois, Guillaume, -1566, bookseller.

Peter Way Collection of Early Modern Texts (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1549.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)

Way, Niobe, 1963- (donor) (Way copy)

Schmitz, Petrus Josephus (former owner) (inscription) (Way copy)

Rossius, Lucas, -1616 (inscription) (Way copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 811, [1], 214, [128] pages ; 38 cm (fol.)

Edition:

Secunda editio.

Distribution:

Parisiis : Prostant apud Carolam Guillard ... & Gulielmum Desboys ..., 1549.

Manufacture:

Parisiis : Excudebat Carola Guillard ..., MDXLIX [1549]

Fingerprint:

imha æ-o- i.i- tead (3) 1549 (A)

Notes:

With the editor's commentary and textual criticism in the margins.

Previously published in 1541 and subsequently in 1552; edition of 1552 also denoted "secunda editio".

Colophon on leaf ²C8r reads: Parisiis Excudebat Carola Guillard, sub sole aureo via ad diuum Iacobum, Anno domini M. D. XLIX.

Signatures: '1a'-'3d'⁸ '3e'⁶ '4a'-'4m'⁸ '4n'-'4o'⁶ A-D⁸ E¹⁰, ²A⁸ B⁶ C⁸ (leaf '4o'6 blank).

Register on leaf ²C8r.

First word of title is a xylograph ("BIBLIA" within a cartouche).

Criblé and woodcut initials.

Errata on leaf *1v.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Way copy imperfect: leaf '4o'6 (blank) wanting.

Way copy has manuscript shelf-mark(?) ("G. A L. G N. 3") on front pastedown; modern manuscript note ("Ricardo Abronzo, the Lion Hearted 1553 Anno Domini") in pencil on front pastedown; early manuscript note ("Anno 1572.") at head of title leaf.

Way copy has partially illegible early manuscript ownership inscription ("[...] [...] possidet hunc librum biblicum Petrus Josephus Schmitz Rector Capellae S. Jo[ann]is Baptistae") of Petrus Josephus Schmitz, rector of the Johanneskapelle (probably of the Aachener Dom) on front pastedown.

Way copy has partially effaced early manuscript provenance inscription ("[...] á 1608 ex donatione Rd. D. Luca Rossij") on title leaf; partially struck through early manuscript provenance inscription ("[...] a R. D[omi]no Luca Rossio Canonico S. Adalberti.") on title leaf; partially struck through early manuscript provenance inscription ("R[everend]us Dominus [...] Lucae Rossio in [...] Anno 1606 quinta Augusti.") on title leaf. Lucas Rossius was a canon of Propsteikirche Sankt Adalbert in Aachen.

Way copy donated to the Penn Libraries by Niobe Way in 2018.

Way copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pig over beveled-edge wooden boards; blind-ruled turn-ins; evidence of 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps with metal catchplates; evidence of metal shoes (1 intact); 5 raised bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; evidence of spine label; all edges red; manuscript fore-edge title ("Biblia").

Cited in:

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B-1041

Pettegree, A. French books III & IV, 57381

OCLC:

42045109