Biblia en lengua Española traduzida palabra por palabra dela verdad Hebrayca por muy excelentes letrados vista y examinada por el officio dela Inquisicion.
Abraham Usque (fl.16th century)
Category
Books
Date
1553
Materials
Place of origin
Ferrara
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094690
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 400 [i.e. 401], [3] leaves ; fol. Running number: 2714. Without leaves DDD10-11 and the cancel-leaf between fols. 48 and 49. Provenance: Nicolas Fouquet's copy. Manuscript initial letter on front fly-leaf: "S". Manuscript symbol on rear pastedown: "#". Manuscript verse numbers supplied in the margins of the text on some leaves of Genesis. Manuscript code in pencil written vertically up the margin on leaf A1v: "DO-to-". Binding: seventeenth-century full calf. Large tear in leather of upper cover; other tears and scuffs on both covers. Gilt oval armorial centrepiece stamp of Nicolas Fouquet: squirrel rampant on shield, lion supporters, coronet, full helm with mantling, squirrel crest [Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et de Vaux (1615-1680)]. Gold-tooled spine, with Fouquet's squirrel armorial device and double Phi 'ΦΦ' cipher in six alternate panels; title panel: 'Biblia Espanola'. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Abraham Usque (fl.16th century), editor Yom Tov Athias (16th century), engraver and publisher