Beschreibung:

Bible. Greek. Παντα τα κατ'εξοχην καλουμενα Βιβλια θειας δηλαδη γραφης παλαιας τε, και νεας. Sacrae Scripturae veteris, novaeque omnia. (Venice): Aldus (in the house of Aldus and Andrea Torresano, February 1518)
A second copy.
Super-Chancery folio (325 x 210 mm). Greek type, 55 lines plus headline; 448 leaves, foliated. Title-page and headings printed in red (with ink tracing around last two lines of title and along border of device), 3-line initial spaces with printed guides, woodcut Aldine device on title-page (in red) and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials and Byzantine- derived headpieces, nearly all printed in red (except for the Epistles), with blank leaves aaαα4, ddδδ10 and hhhθθθ9, traces of blind printing on title-page, a few words on xxφφ2 mentioning Erasmus crossed through. (Preliminary leaves slightly frayed, some wormholes at beginning and end, occasional light browning, final quire becoming loose.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian blind-tooled morocco over wooden boards (346 x 239 mm), concentric borders of leafy tools and two central panels each with an arabesque centerpiece, lettered TA BIBΛIA on upper cover between the central panels, spine with (later) blind hatching, plain edges, two clasps, new endleaves. (Binding restored with repairs to board edges, boards wormed with holes in morocco repaired, joints repaired, spine repaired at ends, new straps and clasps with one catchplate replaced to style, one clasp becoming detached from a section of wormed wood.)
provenance: Bartolomeo Piccolomini and friends, inscription on title-page dated February 1522. acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1986. references: Cataldi Palau 34; Darlow & Moule 4594; Edit16 61055; Renouard 84/8; UCLA 163 (see for detailed contents and collation); G. Scott Clemons & H. George Fletcher, Aldus Manutius A legacy more lasting than Bronze (New York 2015), no. 69 (“from the collection of T. Kimball Brooker”)