Rare 1568/69 Robert Estienne Greek 'Novum Testamentum...' FINE BINDING. Bible.

Description: Rare 1568/69 Robert Estienne Greek 'Novum Testamentum...' FINE BINDING. Bible. Click images to enlarge Description ‘Novum testamentum, ex bibliotheca Regia.’ Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, typis Regii. Lutetiae [ie Paris]. 1569/1568. 12mo [4.75’’ tall x 3.25’’ wide x 1.25’’ thick]. Collates complete [32], 494, [2], 3-342, [40]p. A very good, solid and clean copy of this highly regarded Greek New Testament printed by Robert Estienne [1503-1559]. General title and a further printed title to the second part. Both titles with printer’s woodcut device. Greek text in a very attractive font in single column to each leaf. One quire of leaves in the second section misbound, almost certainly as originally produced and bound by the printers. Alternate leaves in quire T are misbound instead of running T1-8, they run T2, T1, T4, T3, T6, T5, T8, T7. All leaves are present with nothing lacking. Colophon dated M.D.LXVIII [1568]. Minimal very light marks or blemishes else a handsome and clean copy in the main. With an early inscription to the front endpaper dated 1722. Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus in Latin) published four Greek New Testaments in the sixteenth century (1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551). The first three editions of his Novum Testamentum were published in Paris, the fourth in Geneva. His third edition of 1550 was affectionately known as Editio Regia, because of the magnificent Greek font and large folio size of the codex. Not only the most handsome, the 1550 Stephanus is also the most important of his texts. This was the first published Greek New Testament to have a textual apparatus. Stephanus examined 15 manuscripts and listed several of their readings in the margins of his Editio Regia. Stephanus’s fourth edition was the first to have verse divisions in it, a feature that Stephanus invented to help the reader more easily compare the two Latin translations and the Greek that are found in the fourth edition. Though the text of the third and fourth editions was virtually identical, the fourth became the basis for the Geneva Bible, the first Bible translation to have verse divisions. The 1550 Stephanus also became the standard text to be used as a collating base for countless collations of Greek New Testament manuscripts. Bound in an attractive later full grained leather binding. With leather strapwork clasps with metal fasteners. Marbled endpapers. Minimal light rubbing or wear else an attractive and sound binding. INTERNATIONAL PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TAXES OR DUTIES. PLEASE CHECK BEFORE PURCHASE. Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

Price: 1995 GBP

Location: Kingston Upon Hull

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