Nouum Testamentum omne, multo quàm antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitu[m], eme[n]datum ac translatum, no[n] solum ad Graecam ueritate[m], uerum etiam ad multoru[m] utriusq[ue] linguae codicum, eorúmq[ue] ueteru[m] simul & eme[n]datorum fidem, postremo ad probatissimoru[m] autorum citationem, eme[n]dationem & interpretatione[m], praecipue Origenis, Athanasij, Nazianzeni, Chrysostomi, Cyrilli, Theophylacti, Hieronymi, Cypriani, Ambrosij, Hilarij, Augustini, uná cu[m] annotationibus recognitis, ac magna accessione locupletatis, quae lectorem doceant, quid qua ratione mutatu[m] sit. Quisquis igitur amas uera[m] theologiam, lege, cognosce, ac deinde iudica. Neq[ue] statim offendere, si quid mutatum offenderis, sed expende, num in melius mutatum sit. Nam morbus est non iudicium, damnare quod non inspexeris. Saluo vbique et illabefacto ecclesiae iudicio. Addita sunt in singulas Apostolorum epistolas argumenta per Erasmum Rot.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1519
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095310
Summary
Bibliographic description
120, 566, [2]; [8], 579, [1] p. : ill. ; fol. Running number: 2712. New Testament only; without pt. 2, the "annotationes". All borders and initials are beautifully hand-coloured, primarily in green, red and yellow. Rubricated throughout, some rubrication picked out with silver (some now oxidised). Running titles, caption titles, chapter headings, paragraph marks, capital letters and some text picked out and ruled in red. Printer's device on verso of final leaf hand-coloured. All errata corrected by hand. Provenance: blank shield in borders of f6r and D6r with hand-coloured coat of arms: Or, three bends gules [i.e. the arms of the Cortenbach family, lords of Helmond, North Brabant, Netherlands]. Shield on D6r with manuscript name in ink beneath: "KORTENBAX." [i.e. Cortenbach]. Pages 4-5 (sigs. Aa2v-Aa3r) and pp. 69-83 (sigs. Ff5r-Gg6r) in first pagination sequence marked in the margins in red crayon. Manuscript marginal notes, markings and underscoring of text in different sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hands in ink on pp. 8-12 (sigs. Aa4v-Aa6v), pp. 48-49 (sigs. Dd6v-Ee1r), pp. 60-62 (sigs. Ee6v-Ff1v) in first pagination sequence. Occasional manuscript marginal notes in sixteenth-century hand in ink in the main text, e.g. pp. 2, 11, 247, 251, 272. Manuscript marginal notes on p. 188 have been bleached or washed-out. Binding: seventeenth- or eighteenth-century full reddish-brown polished calf; double gilt fillet border; two gold-tooled panels formed by fillets and roll patterns, mitred together at the corners, the outer panel with with gilt cornerpiece stamps. Gilt roll decoration on board edges; blind roll on turn-ins. Gold-tooled spine, small floral stamps and gilt title panel. All edges gilt. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), editor Saint Ambrose, (c.339 - 397), Bishop of Milan Saint Athanasius, (296/8-373) Patriarch of Alexandria. Saint Augustine, (354-430 AD) Bishop of Hippo Saint Cyprian (d.304), author Saint Cyril, (c.370-444) Patriarch of Alexandria Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, Archbishop of Constantinople (c.329-389/90) Saint Hilary (401-449) Archbishop of Arles Saint Jerome (circa 347-420) Saint John Chrysostom (c.347-407) Patriarch of Constantinople Origen (184/5-253/4) Theophylactus of Ochrida (1050-1108) Archbishop of Ochrida Johann Froben (d.1527)