Biblia sacra Vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atq[ue] edita.
Saint Jerome (circa 347-420)
Category
Books
Date
1629
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008474
Summary
Bibliographic description
Running number: 2201. Bound in 10 vols. Pagination as bound: vol. 1: 356 p.; vol. 2: 357-729, [7] p.; vol. 3: 375 p.; vol. 4: 375-637, [5]; 192 p.; vol. 5: 479, [1] p.; vol. 6: 512 p.; vol. 7: 513-861, [3] p.; vol. 8: 438 p.; vol. 9: 439-758, [10] p.; vol. 10: 128, [192] p. Signatures as bound: vol. 1: A-Y8 Z2; vol. 2: Z3-8 Aa-Zz8 (Zz7-8 blank); vol. 3: A-Z8 Aa3; vol. 4: Aa4-8 Bb-Rr8 (Rr8 blank); vol. 5: A-M8; vol. 6: A-Z8 Aa-Gg8; vol. 7: A-Z8 Aa-Ii8; vol. 8: Kk-Zz8 Aaa-Hhh8; vol. 9: A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee3; vol. 10: Ee4-8 Ff-Zz8 Aaa-Bbb8 (Bbb5-8 blank); vol. 11: A-V8 (V6-8 blank). Provenance: manuscript old inventory codes or shelfmarks in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf in each volume: (485/1)-(485/10) and X.44-X.53. Binding: seventeenth-century gold-tooled red morocco (spines faded to brown); gilt double and single fillet border frame; gilt centrepiece design made from repeated small stamps; gilt dotted roll pattern along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spines, with title and vol. number. All edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Saint Jerome (circa 347-420), author Pope Sixtus V (Felice Peretti) (1520-1590), authorisor