Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
8 December 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/155
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    162 Biblia. The Byble in Englyshe (The “Great” or Cromwell’s) (the Newe Testament after the last recognition and setting forth of Erasmus), black letter (wants all before folio x and after folio LXxxvill in the N. T. ; separate titles except that to the N. T. ; has many sound leaves (sold not subject to return), A RARE EDITION, half bound Petyt & Redman, 1540 163 Biblia. The Byble whych is all the Holy Scripture...truelye and purelye translated into Englishe by Thos. Mathewe, 1537, and now imprinted in the yeare 1549 [revised by Becke with the Bugges reading in Psalm XCI, 5], black Uctter (imperfect, ends on Revelation LX, top margin of many ll. damaged by damp, wants all titles, and several ll. defective, sold not subject to return), old calf T. Raynalde &d W. Hyll, 1549 164 Bible. The Bible, truly and purely translated, Mathews’ (or . Tyndale’s) Version, revised by Becke, black letter, woodcuts . (very imperfect), old boarded calf Day & Seres, 1549 165 Biblia. The Bible in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume (Cranmer’s), black [etter (wants all before folio XLIx and after CXIL in N. T. has all the fine engraved titles except the first ,; sold not subject to return), old calf Rouen, at the cost of k. Carmarden, 1566 166 Biblia. The Holie Bible, Frrst EDITION of the Bishops Version, black letter, nwmerous woodcuts, very imperfect, especially beginning and end, much stained, has all titles except the first (sold not sub- ject to return), half bound fi. Jugge, 1568 167 Biblia. The Bible translated according to the Ebrew and Greke, with most Profitable Annotations (Genevan or “ Breeches” Version) ; whereunto is added the Psalter of the common translation agreeing with the Booke of Common Prayer, &c. black letter, wants first title, several Ul. defective at beginning and end (sold with all faults), old calf C. Barker, 1578 *,* This copy has the remarkably rare edition of the Book of Common Prayer, of which an account is given by Mr. Clay in his preface to the Elizabethan Liturgies issued for the Parker Society. It has alterations in the Rubrics supposed to have been made under Puritan direction. It omits the Order of Confirmation and the Churching of Women, and uses Minister for Priest. It is quite perfect, having 19 ll. beginning on b 111 without title. 168 Blondus (Flavius, Forliviensis) Italie Hlustrate lib. VIII sive Descriptio XIV Regionum Italiz, edente Gasp. Blondo, EDITIO , PRINCEPS, lit. rom. long lines, without signs. (stained, wants . ) several Ul. at end), new vellum, with inlayings im black and red amd gilt ornaments (Rome, Ph. de Lignamine, 1474] 169 Bologninus (L.) Opus Juris Canonici, lit. goth. Bonon. Ugo Rugerius, 1486—Magarita Decreti edita per Fratrem Mar- tinum, lit. goth. (staened), Venet. P. de Paschalibus, 1486 ; in 1 vol. oaken boards, stamped pigskin 170 Bonifacius VIII Papa. Libus Sextus Decretalium, It. goth. quadruple columns, 64 lines, without marks, rubricated in red and blue, painted and illuminated initial on first page (some Ul. wormed), half pigskin, sides of an old musical MS. Rome, impressum per Geo. Lauer, 1472
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