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
1517
Materials
Place of origin
Alcalá de Henares
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094722.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
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). Provenance: ink-stamp at foot of title page: '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 title page: "Complute[n]s.". With occasional manuscript marginalia in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand, e.g. on leaves [Maltese cross]3v, a1r, b1v, b5v, cc5v, kk3v-ll2r, qq4v-qq6r, etc.Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled crushed[?] and polished goatskin[?] over wooden boards; blind fillet and roll pattern border; different blind roll patterns on board edges and turn-ins; blind-tooled spine, with gilt title, author and vol. number lettering; all edges gilt.
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