Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive ibri canonici, priscae Iudaeorum ecclesiae a Deo traditi Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti, brevibúsque scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco Iunio accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi, Latinè redditi & notis quibusdam aucti a Francisco Junio... quibus etiam adjunximus novi Testamenti libros ex sermone Syriaco ab eodem Tremellio in Latinum conversos
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Type of record: Book
Title: Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive ibri canonici, priscae Iudaeorum ecclesiae a Deo traditi Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti, brevibúsque scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco Iunio accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi, Latinè redditi & notis quibusdam aucti a Francisco Junio... quibus etiam adjunximus novi Testamenti libros ex sermone Syriaco ab eodem Tremellio in Latinum conversos
Other titles: Bible
Classmark: Leeds Friends' Old Library 1020
Additional creator(s): Tremellius, Immanuel (1510-1580) (Other); Junius, Franciscus (1545-1602) (Other); Barker, Christopher (1529-1599) (Other); Middleton, Henry (1587) (Other)
Publisher: Excudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis C.B
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1579-1580
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 6 parts in 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/239932
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013374189705181
Collection group(s): Quaker Collection
Description
The earliest complete Latin Bible printed in England.
Pts. 2-4 of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha (pt. 5), and the New Testament (pt. 6) have separate title pages, all dated 1579 except the last which is dated 1580, with imprint of Thomas Vautrollier, and a seperate sequence of signatures.
Imprint to New Testament: Londini : Excudebat T.V. typographus. impensis J.H., 1580.
Old Testament in 5 parts, pt. 2-5 have separate title pages; Pt. 2: Bibliorvm pars secvnda, id est libri historici Latini recèns ex Hebraeo facti ; Pt. 3: Biblbiorvm pars teria, id est, qvinqve libri poetici ; Pt. 4: Bibliorvm pars qvarta, id est, prophetici libri omnes, nvmero XVI ... ; Pt. 5: Libri Apocryphi, sive appeddix Testamenti veteris ad canonem priscae Ecclesiae adjecta.
New Testament has title: Iesv Christi D. N. Novvm Testamentvm e Lingva Syriaca latino sermone redditum.
Each title page has a title vignette: The good shepherd.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia.
Printed for Christopher Barker.
Tremellius' and Junius' version of the Old Testament, Junius' translation of the Apocrypha, which had first been published at Frankfurt a. M, 1575-1569 and Tremellius' translation of the New Testament, made from the Syriac, first published at Geneva in 1569.
Indexed in: Darlow & Moule 6166 (variant); S.T.C. 2056.
Additional description
Signatures of John Proude and William Dale on endpaper 17th century MS. annotations on verso. Title-page inscribed Ex dono dignissimi doctissimique domini Fran. Talentij Salopiae and Belongs Leeds Meeting the Gift of Thos. Arthington. Map of Palestine drawn on title-page verso of Part 6
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