BIBLE, New Testament in Greek and Latin -- Novum Iesu Christi D. N. Testamentum. Graece et Latine. Lyon: Antoine de Harsy, 1600. 16° (119 x 77mm). Title (in Greek and Latin) within architectural woodcut border, second title similar for Epistles and Apocalypse. Contemporary German gold-tooled calf, covers with an elaborate central panel of birds and animals in foliage, including a deer and unicorn, with, on the upper cover, a centrepiece of the haloed Christ holding an orb, and on the lower cover an arabesque strapwork centrepiece; spine decorated in compartments, edges gilt with diapered gauffering (very slight wear to board edges, small and discreet repairs to head and foot of spine), modern morocco-backed box by James Brockman. Provenance: 'M.G.C. Artopoei' (inscription ca.1700 on title; Greek inscription on final blank, to Ioannes Petros (Johann Peter?) from Metrophanes Kritopoulos, monk of Berroia in Macedonia, dated ?Strasburg, 'in the waning of Metageitnion' (early September) 1619. AN IMPORTANT AND UNRECORDED LATE RENAISSANCE GERMAN BINDING ON A RARE DIGLOT NEW TESTAMENT, made perhaps in Frankfurt or Heidelberg. The panel of birds and animals in foliage, not found elsewhere, has parallels with a similar panel used by Jacob Krause (cf. Boerner Kat. no.41). Variants of the trefoil roll can be found on a number of late 16th-century German bindings (cf. Breslauer Cat. 110, item 52, and Schunke Palatina pls. LXXV and XCVII), while the chain-link roll is a common feature of both German and Bohemian bindings of the period. The medallion of the haloed Christ is of a type found in particular on Bohemian and Polish-Lithuanian bindings of the period and may have been brought to Germany by a binder from that area. Not in B.L. or Baudrier Bibliographie Lyonnaise ; Darlow and Moule (4664) refer to a 1599/1600 de Harsy diglot without giving details.
BIBLE, New Testament in Greek and Latin -- Novum Iesu Christi D. N. Testamentum. Graece et Latine. Lyon: Antoine de Harsy, 1600. 16° (119 x 77mm). Title (in Greek and Latin) within architectural woodcut border, second title similar for Epistles and Apocalypse. Contemporary German gold-tooled calf, covers with an elaborate central panel of birds and animals in foliage, including a deer and unicorn, with, on the upper cover, a centrepiece of the haloed Christ holding an orb, and on the lower cover an arabesque strapwork centrepiece; spine decorated in compartments, edges gilt with diapered gauffering (very slight wear to board edges, small and discreet repairs to head and foot of spine), modern morocco-backed box by James Brockman. Provenance: 'M.G.C. Artopoei' (inscription ca.1700 on title; Greek inscription on final blank, to Ioannes Petros (Johann Peter?) from Metrophanes Kritopoulos, monk of Berroia in Macedonia, dated ?Strasburg, 'in the waning of Metageitnion' (early September) 1619. AN IMPORTANT AND UNRECORDED LATE RENAISSANCE GERMAN BINDING ON A RARE DIGLOT NEW TESTAMENT, made perhaps in Frankfurt or Heidelberg. The panel of birds and animals in foliage, not found elsewhere, has parallels with a similar panel used by Jacob Krause (cf. Boerner Kat. no.41). Variants of the trefoil roll can be found on a number of late 16th-century German bindings (cf. Breslauer Cat. 110, item 52, and Schunke Palatina pls. LXXV and XCVII), while the chain-link roll is a common feature of both German and Bohemian bindings of the period. The medallion of the haloed Christ is of a type found in particular on Bohemian and Polish-Lithuanian bindings of the period and may have been brought to Germany by a binder from that area. Not in B.L. or Baudrier Bibliographie Lyonnaise ; Darlow and Moule (4664) refer to a 1599/1600 de Harsy diglot without giving details.
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