Religion & Devotion / Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works

[NEBRIJA, Antonio de] (editor). Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum … annotationibus.
Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication.
Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers. [63 of 64] ll. Full description

[NEEDLE CASE]. [Elaborate gilded openwork metal needle case in the form of a miniature book].
[The Netherlands?, circa 1700]. 45 x 43 cm. The "boards", as well as the "spine" of the gilded metal case are in an openwork floral design with scrolling foliage with a standing eagle in the centre. One clasp closure in the middle of the front edge. Both "boards" set with 8 small round cabochon agates (diametre: 7 mm). Full description

NEEFF, Adriaan de. Cijffer-boeck der heylige schrift. Over de gelden, gewigten, ende maten der Hebreen arithmetisch gereduceerd op gelden, gewigten ende maten onsen lande en tijdt gebruykelijck.
Middelburgh, Gijsbertus Noorman, 1682. Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With woodcut vignette on 2 titles, and at the end of the second work, showing identical blank escutcheons. Contemporary vellum. [14], 63, [1 blank]; [4], 75, [5] pp. Full description

NIDER, Johannes. Preceptorium divine legis [preceded by] Prologus in expositionem decalogi [= Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive expositio decalogi].
[Colophon:] Ulm, Johann Zainer the elder, [1478/79]. Chancery (Foolscap) folio. Set in a rotunda gothic type, the preliminaries in two columns, with spaces for manuscript paragraph marks and initials, filled in in red ink, the initials Lombardic, one with interior decoration. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over square-edged wooden boards (from an Augsburg bindery active 1473-1494: Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002141). Further with a brass catchplate on the front board and a brass anchor plate on the back board. [246] ll. Full description

OTHO, Georg. Palaestra linguarum orientalium, hoc est: quatuor primorum capitum Geneseos, I. Textus originalis tam ex Judaeorum quàm Samaritanorum traditionibus. II. Targumim seu paraphrases orientales praecipuae, nempe I. Chaldaicae, (Onkelosi, Jonathanis et Hierosolymitana) II. Syriaca, III. Samaritana, IV. Arabica, V. Aethiopica, VI. Persica. Omnia cum versione Latinâ ...
Including: OTHO, Andreas. Glossarium linguarum orientalium octuplex: Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Arabicum, Aethiopicum, Persicum et Rabbinicum …
Frankfurt am Main, published by Friedrich Knoch, printed by Martin Jacquet, 1702. 4to. With one woodcut initial. Set in roman, Arabic, Hebrew, Samaritan and Ethiopic types. 2 parts in 1 volume. Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled sides. [18] 140, 147, [3] pp. Full description

OTTONI, José Eloi. Parafraze dos proverbios de Salomão em verso portuguez, dedicada ao serenissimo principe da beira nosso senhor.
Bahia, Brazil, Manuel Antonio de Silva Serva, 1815. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on title page and with head-pieces built-up from typographical ornaments throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin with a black morocco label on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [2 blank], 357, [5 blank] pp. Full description

[PARADIN, Claude & Bernard SALOMON]. Quadrins Historiques de la bible. Reveus, & augmentés d'un grand nombre de figures.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1583.
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(2) [FONTAINE, Charles & Bernard SALOMON]. Figures du nouveau testament.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1579. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an ornamental woodcut border with the printer's device including two vipers, 233 half-page woodcut illustrations, and 2 woodcut vignettes. Ad 2: with the title in a historiated woodcut border (Cartier "Nains") with the same woodcut printer's device (Cartier, 'Vipères I,1') and 96 half-page woodcut illustrations, including one repetition, arabesque headpieces, and a large woodcut on the last page (Cartier, "Lac d'amour). 18th- or 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled pebble-grained dark greenish-blue sheepskin, with the titles and place and year of publication for both titles lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [131]; [52] ll. Full description

PASSE, Crispijn de (the elder) [after Maarten de VOS]. [The acts of mercy, including the Last Judgement].
Antwerp, Adriaen Collaert (7 plates with the Acts of Mercy) & Johannes Galle (the Last Judgement), ca. 1580-1588. Folio (7 of 8 plates trimmed). 8 engravings (ca. 17.5 x 20.5 cm) on laid paper by Crispijn de Passe I (the elder) after Maarten de Vos with the central scene framed by an exquisite ornamental border showing crafts, tools and scenes relating to the subject. All engravings captioned with engraved Latin text in a cartouche below the images. Loose prints. Full description

PETRARCA, Francesco (attributed). Psalmi confessionales.
[Deventer, Albert Pafraet, ca. 1514-1517]. 8vo. With 2 allegorical woodcut illustrations. The first, on the title-page, shows "Cognitio" leaving the room to go inquire who wounded the Daughter (of) Zion. The second, on the last page, shows "Spes", "Fides" and "Cognitio" comforting the Daughter (of) Zion, who is lying in bed. Later sheepskin parchment with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [6] ff, Full description

[PSALTERIUM - ELZEVIER]. Psalterium Davidis, ad exemplar Vaticanum Anni 1592.
Leiden, Johannes and Daniel Elzevier, 1653. 12mo. With an engraved title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Slightly later red morocco. 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description