Bible in Greek [GREEK TITLE] SACRAE SCRIPTURAE VETERIS, NOVAE’QUE OMNIA. VENICE: HEIRS OF ALDUS, FEBRUARY 1518 Super-Chancery Folio (315 × 208 mm). Collation: [*4 (title, dedication to Card. Giles of Viterbo, contents)]; a-z &8 aa4 (Genesis-Job, aa4 blank); bb-cc8 dd10 (Psalms, dd10 blank); ee-qq8 rr10 ss-tt8 uu6 (contents, dedication to Daniele Renier, capitano of Verona, Proverbs-Maccabees); xx-zz && aaa-bbb8 ccc4 ddd-ggg8 hhh10: (contents, dedication to Erasmus, New Testament; hhh8r quire register, colophon; hhh9 blank; hhh10v Aldine device): 448 leaves, including blanks aa4, dd10, hhh9, quires signed with parallel Roman and Greek characters, a1r-hhh7r foliated 1-451, with errors. Red and black printing, Greek and Italic types, woodcut initials and headpieces, chapter initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). Stains on title-page and following leaves. Nineteenth-century russia, gilt spine, blind-stamped supralibros, marbled edges.
Bible in Greek [GREEK TITLE] SACRAE SCRIPTURAE VETERIS, NOVAE’QUE OMNIA. VENICE: HEIRS OF ALDUS, FEBRUARY 1518 Super-Chancery Folio (315 × 208 mm). Collation: [*4 (title, dedication to Card. Giles of Viterbo, contents)]; a-z &8 aa4 (Genesis-Job, aa4 blank); bb-cc8 dd10 (Psalms, dd10 blank); ee-qq8 rr10 ss-tt8 uu6 (contents, dedication to Daniele Renier, capitano of Verona, Proverbs-Maccabees); xx-zz && aaa-bbb8 ccc4 ddd-ggg8 hhh10: (contents, dedication to Erasmus, New Testament; hhh8r quire register, colophon; hhh9 blank; hhh10v Aldine device): 448 leaves, including blanks aa4, dd10, hhh9, quires signed with parallel Roman and Greek characters, a1r-hhh7r foliated 1-451, with errors. Red and black printing, Greek and Italic types, woodcut initials and headpieces, chapter initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). Stains on title-page and following leaves. Nineteenth-century russia, gilt spine, blind-stamped supralibros, marbled edges.
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