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Antwerp edition of the so-called Louvain Bible

[BIBLE - LOUVAIN].
Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata. Pentateuchus Moysi. Josue. Liber Judicum. Ruth.

Woodcut printer's device on title.

Woodcut printer's device on title.

Woodcut printer's device on title.



Antwerp, Vid. & haer. Ioannis Steelsius(A. Tavernier), 1569-1570. 12mo. Old calf, spine ribbed, with gilt fillet border on sides and gilt oval ornament in centre on sides, g.e. Woodcut printer's device on title. (14, 2 blank), 320 pp.

Antwerp edition of the so-called Louvain Bible, with the privilige granted to Steelsius. All suspected bibles in had been prohibited by an imperial edict and an authorized edition of the Vulgate was pubished in Louvain in 1547. This 'Louvain Bible' was practically a reprint of Robert Stephanus's Bible of 1538-1540. The present duodecimo-edition was printed in 1569 by Tavernier for the widow and heirs of J. Steelsius and published in 1570.

Fine copy.- (Top of spine dam.; title sl. soiled).
Belg. Typogr. 448 (first vol. only); this edition not in Darlow-Moule, STC Dutch, Adams, Machiels, NUC.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Bibles  Louvain 

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