PLANTIN PRESS. BIBLE.

Biblia Sacra. Vulgatae Editionis. Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atq[ue] edita.

      Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana [Balthasaris Moreti], 1629. First Edition 6 volumes bound in 11. Small 8vo, 116 x 63 mms., pp. 357 [358 blank]; 359 - 719 [720 colophon, 721 emblem "constantia labore," 720 blank]; 375 [376 blank]; 375 [text partially repeated from volume 3] - 637 [638 colophon, 639 emblem 640 blank], 128; 192, 206; 207 - 479 [480 blank]; 336 with 337 in contemporary calligraphic hand, 338 blank]; 337 - 702; 703 - 861 [862 colophon, 863 emblem, 864 blank], [68 - unpaginated text for Hieronymi Prologvs Galatvs, 116 - index, 117 colophon, 118 emblem]; 336; 337 - 758 [759 colophon, 780 emblem], with page 337 in volume 8 being the printed page supplied in manuscript in volume 7, general engraved title-page in volume 1, printed title-pages in volumes 3, 4, 5, 7, and 10, with the New Testament beginning in volume 10, very attractively bound in 17th century deep olive morocco, gilt ruled panels on each cover with ornament in each corner, spines ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; corners slightly worn but a fine set, and the binding is almost certainly French. The first edition of the Vulgate text of the Bible, also known as the Clementine Bible, was published in Rome in 1529 by Aldus Manutius the Younger.It was issued with a papal bull preventing publication outside the Vatican, and any text produced after that period had to be collated with a Vatican copy. It remained the canonical text for the Catholic Church until 1907, when it was revised.