Vetus testamentu[m] multiplici lingua nu[n]c primo impressum. Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Greco atq[ue] Chaldaico idiomate. Adiu[n]cta vnicuiq[ue] sua latina interpretatione.
Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436-1517)
Category
Books
Date
1514 - 1517
Materials
Place of origin
Alcalá de Henares
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094722
Summary
Bibliographic description
Running number: 2736 (vols. 1-4); 2738 (vol. 5). Wanting vol. 6. Vol. 5 from different set to vols. 1-4. Vol. 1: wanting initial blank leaf; title page torn and repaired, preliminary leaves repaired; final errata leaves ²a1-2 mis-bound at front between end of preliminaries (leaf [Maltese cross]8) and beginning of main text (leaf a1). Vol. 2: wanting final errata leaves ²a1-2. Vol. 3: wanting leaf ccc1 (stub remains), with tipped-in printed errata slip ("Pritiua. heb. Lex. he. i. Esd. x. Tra[n]sla. B. Hie. Tra[n]s. Gre. lxx. cu[m] interp[retatio]. latina. ..."); wanting final blank leaf. Vol. 4: wanting final leaves ²a1-2. Vol. 5: quire [alpha] mis-bound between quires MM and ²a; wanting final blank leaf g4. Provenance: ink-stamp at foot of title pages of vols. 1-4: 'Francisci Fr. F. Raphelengii' [i.e. Frans Raphelengius the Younger (1568-1643?). Raphelengius was the grandson of Christopher Plantin, worked at the Plantin printing house in Antwerp, and in 1597 inherited the Leiden office of Officina Plantiniana. His father Franciscus Raphelengius (1539-1597), scholar and printer, worked with his father-in-law Christopher Plantin on his great polyglot Bible, printed 1569-1573]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 title page: "Complute[n]s.". Manuscript initial on vol. 5 front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription (crossed-through) on vol. 5 title page: "S. Hamond". With occasional manuscript marginalia in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand in vol. 1, e.g. on leaves [Maltese cross]3v, a1r, b1v, b5v, cc5v, kk3v-ll2r, qq4v-qq6r, etc. Binding: vols. 1-4: nineteenth-century blind-tooled crushed[?] and polished goatskin[?] bindings over wooden boards; blind fillet and roll pattern border; different blind roll patterns on board edges and turn-ins; blind-tooled spines, with gilt title, author and vol. number lettering; all edges gilt. Vol. 5: seventeenth-century plain vellum binding (spine cracked, partially missing); manuscript spine title (partially missing); red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436-1517) , editor Alfonso de Alcala , editor Alfonso de Zamora (c.1474 - c.1544), editor Pablo Coronel, editor Diego López de Zúñiga (d.1530), editor Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522), editor Hernán Núñez (1475-1553) , editor Arnao Guillén de Brocar (d.1523), printer Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436-1517) , publisher