La Bible, qui est toute la Saincte Escriture du Vieil & du Nouueau Testament : autrement l'anciene & la nouuelle alliance / le tout reueu & conferé sur les textes hebrieux & grecs, par les pasteurs & professeurs de l'Eglise de Geneue.
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La Bible, qui est toute la Saincte Escriture du Vieil & du Nouueau Testament : autrement l'anciene & la nouuelle alliance / le tout reueu & conferé sur les textes hebrieux & grecs, par les pasteurs & professeurs de l'Eglise de Geneue.
Uniform title
Bible. French. Geneva. 1588.
Created/published
A Geneue : [Jeremie des Planches], MDLXXXVIII [1588]
Description
[4], 412, 96, 130, [3] leaves ; 18 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Bertram, Bonaventure Corneille, 1531-1594, editor.
Des Planches, Jérémie, -1600, printer.
Stickelberger, Emanuel, 1884-1962, former owner.
Des Planches, Jérémie, -1600, printer.
Stickelberger, Emanuel, 1884-1962, former owner.
Note
French Geneva version. A fresh revision, prepared by C.B. Bertram, with the assistance of T. de Bèze, A. La Faye, I. Jacquemot, S. Goulart and I.B. Rotan. According to Petavel, Bertram chiefly followed the guidance of Münster and Tremellius. Issued in 3 formats: folio, quarto, octavo. See Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture ... 3736.
Printer identified as Jeremie des Planches in: Reformation: Katalog der Sammlung Emanuel Stickelberger.
"The Metrical Psalms etc. are evidently intended to form part of the volume"--Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture ... 3737
Signatures: *⁴ a-z⁸ A-2E⁸ 2F⁴ 2a-2m⁸; ²2A-2Q⁸ 2R⁴, chi1; P1 and P3 missigned 'Pp' and 'Pp3' respectively.
Title page vignette; head- and tail- pieces; initials; printed marginalia.
Vignette on the title page represents an angel leaning against a cross, trampling on skeleton, and holding a book in the left hand; on verso of title page: "Aduertissement aux marchands libraires & imprimeurs." Prefixed is "Epistre," and list of books. "Les liures apocryphes" appended to Old Testament (96 leaves). New Testament followed by "Interpretation de quelques mots et noms propres ..."
Text in two columns, roman type, with arguments and marginal references.
Errata leaf (chi1) present in some copies. (Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture)
Printer identified as Jeremie des Planches in: Reformation: Katalog der Sammlung Emanuel Stickelberger.
"The Metrical Psalms etc. are evidently intended to form part of the volume"--Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture ... 3737
Signatures: *⁴ a-z⁸ A-2E⁸ 2F⁴ 2a-2m⁸; ²2A-2Q⁸ 2R⁴, chi1; P1 and P3 missigned 'Pp' and 'Pp3' respectively.
Title page vignette; head- and tail- pieces; initials; printed marginalia.
Vignette on the title page represents an angel leaning against a cross, trampling on skeleton, and holding a book in the left hand; on verso of title page: "Aduertissement aux marchands libraires & imprimeurs." Prefixed is "Epistre," and list of books. "Les liures apocryphes" appended to Old Testament (96 leaves). New Testament followed by "Interpretation de quelques mots et noms propres ..."
Text in two columns, roman type, with arguments and marginal references.
Errata leaf (chi1) present in some copies. (Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture)
Cited/described in
Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 3738
Eys, W.J. van. Bibliographie des Bibles et des Nouveaux Testaments en langue française des XVme et XVIme siècles, 179
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B-1153
Reformation : Katalog der Sammlung Emanuel Stickelberger, 38
Eys, W.J. van. Bibliographie des Bibles et des Nouveaux Testaments en langue française des XVme et XVIme siècles, 179
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, B-1153
Reformation : Katalog der Sammlung Emanuel Stickelberger, 38
Linked resources
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library 218- 038q items 1-2: "A Yellow Book", The Collation (7 March 2017)
Place of creation/publication
Switzerland -- Geneva.
Item Details
Call number
218- 038q item 1
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: wanting errata leaf. Bookplate: Aus der Bibliothek von Emanuel Stickelberger. Manuscript notes in Latin, German. Minor underlining. Paper stained yellow. Inboard leather binding with gold stamping on spine and boards; edges gilt and gauffered; some pages stuck together by edge treatment. Bound with: Les CL Pseaumes de Dauid mis en rime francoise. A Geneue : Par Ieremie des Planches, 1587. Acquired from Haus der Bücher as part of the Stickelberger Reformation collection, 1977-01-04.
Folger accession
208038.1