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1527 Latin Bible , Item # L1527 .

Highly Important and Very Rare 1527 Latin Bible

[Bible in Latin.] Biblia Sacra Utriusque Testamenti juxta veterem translationem, qua hucusque Latina utitur Ecclesia, ex antiquissimis ac recentioribus exemplaribus diligentissime collectis, et sicubi dissentiebant consultis fontibus, hoc est, Hebraeis et Graecis voluminibus abhibitis, fidelissime restituta. Nuremberg: J. Petreium, 1527.

Stout octavo. Complete: General title-page [aa.i.]; aa8-cc8; dd2 (Finis of Summaria Capitulorum); Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum (unsigned) foliated 1-6[7-10]; a-z8; A-Z8; Aa8; Bb6 (blanks excised?); Cc-Oo8. Final text leaf with vertical tear, laid down to a final blank or free flyleaf covering printer’s device on verso of Oo8. Title-page in allegorical woodcut border; text double-columned; woodcut initials.

Leaf a4 in Genesis and N8 in Isaiah with cut out lower margins. Tiny text puncture from Hosea forward, not affecting reading.

Occasional early ink marginalia; some ink notes on general title and endpapers.

Very old vellum-covered boards (re-using old Latin MS waste [humanistic hand in black and red]) with slight yapp edges. Old split down spine but book is still perfectly sound structurally. Joints repaired.

This 1527 recension at hand is of extraordinary importance in the history of the Latin text of Scripture in the 16 th Century, as it precedes the Sanctes Pagninus translation into Latin from the Hebrew for the OT; the 1528/1527 Sanctes Pagninus Latin Bible (DM 6108) is the first full Bible (OT and NT) translated entirely from Hebrew and Greek. “For the basis of this [1527 Petreius] recension of the Vulgat e t he editor-printer appears to hav e taken the [Latin] text of the Complutensian Polyglot, correcting it by the help of other editions and the original Hebrew and Greek” (Darlow and Moule, p. 924, my emphasis).

This Petreius Bible is a very important step in the hyper-active period of the Bible in Latin during this period of Erasmus, Cratander, Osiander, Ximenes, Estienne, and Pagninus.

Copy at hand now in a quarter calf clamshell conservation box, spine gilt, by Starr Bookworks of Arizona.

Copinger 209; this recension reprinted in 1529 and 1530 (Copinger 221 and 225).

Not in Darlow and Moule, but see note at DM 6107, p. 924.