Bible In Latin

Biblia Latina: Biblia Cum Pleno Apparatu Summariorum Concordantiarum Et Quadruplicis Repertorii....Impressa

      J. Parvus (i.e., Jean Petit), 1504. Very good [xviii] pp; cccxlvii fol; [xxxviii] pp. Title page printed in red and black with the printer's woodcut device. Woodcut initials throughout, with hand-painted initials at the beginnings of some of the books. 18th century half leather, paper boards, gilt title. Leather worn at edges, but hinges fine. Ownership bookplates and names on endpapers, and in contemporary hands on title page. Light soil on title page; one page with closed marginal tear, extending in the text, early repaired with archival tape; another page with a burn mark obliterating a portion of text and with an early paper repair. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. In the Colophon: "Imprensis vero honesti viri Joannis parvi eiusdem universitatis librarii. in dicto vico in leone argenteo commorantis. Anno ab incarnatione domini millesimo quingentesimo quarto. pridie idus Decembris. " See note after Darlow and Moule, 6090: A folio edition of the Bible...was printed at Paris by Thielman Kerver for Johannes Parvus (i.e., Jean Petit), 12 Dec. 1504: Copinger 132. This Bible and other contemporary editions contain the corrections made by Albertus Castellanus (i.e., da Castello)....The 'plenus apparatus' includes various preliminary pieces and other helps in the description of earlier editions. T. Kerver was a German who began printing in Paris in 1497, and produced many beautiful books of devotion. " See note in Darlow and Moule after No. 6090.