1529 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED TEXTUS BIBLIA antique FOLIO in LATIN RARE 16th CENTURY

1529 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED TEXTUS BIBLIA antique FOLIO in LATIN RARE 16th CENTURY

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img{max-width:100%} Textus Biblie. [Lyon: Jean Crespin], 1529.Folio: 10 by 14"  (355 x 250 mm).Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders.Title printed in red and black , with small woodcut of St. Jerome within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders  and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders.Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons (leaves D1-D3) are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.18th century calf, morocco lettering piece. Some wear to binding, old paper repairs to some pages, dampstain on the lower margin of last several pages, and up

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