Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs hapanta. Euangelion kata Matthaion. Kata Markon. Kata Loukan. Kata Iōannen. Praxeis tōn apostolōn. Nouum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum. Ex bibliotheca regia.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3153973
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 272 [i.e. 268]; 202, [2] p. ; fol. Running number: 2844. Provenance: Henri Estienne's copy. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Sum Theod. Jans. Almeloveenii" [i.e. Theodoor Jansson ab Almeloveen (1657-1712), Dutch physician and classical scholar who wrote a biography of the Estienne family of printers, 'De vitis Stephanorum', published in Amsterdam in 1683. See p. 79 for his notes on Henri Estienne's inscription in this book]. Manuscript inscription at foot of title page, partially cropped and illegible. Manuscript bibliographical notes on front pastedown: [1] written by Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), the owner of this book: "Hujusce editionis exemplaria facile invenies nitidiora. Coeteris idso praestat hoc, quod in eo nomen suum propriâ manu ipse scripserit Henricus Stephanus. vid. p. 28"; [2] in pencil in twentieth-century hand: "See p. 79 in T. Jansson's book De vitis Stephanorum, 1683". Manuscript inscription in cursive Greek in sixteenth-century hand on leaf **6v, identified as that of Henri Estienne (1531-1598): "Errikos Stephanos. Neos ōn tous ex enantias, stichous egrapsa, tauta de ēdē gerōn ōn ē tō gēra eggizōn. E Stephanos" ("As I was young, I wrote the opposite verses but <I write> this as an old man, or approaching old age"). Chapters in text marked-up with manuscript arabic numerals in margins. Manuscript bookseller's code[?] on rear pastedown: "571/2 fxxx". Binding: sixteenth-century alum tawed pigskin, with blind roll panel design. Same design on both covers, with slight variations. Panels formed by blind thin thick thin fillets. Outer panel consists of "handle" and palmette roll, double roll at head and foot, single roll along sides. Next panel with pictorial roll featuring four Christian figures (three saints and a crowned figure playing a harp) with small panels containing Biblical text, signed with initials 'IK'. Next panel is plain with repeated single floral stamps; on front cover with initials 'D N[backwards] V' and date '1563' stamped in blind. Next panel with pictorial roll featuring the Four Evangelists with their respective symbols (angel, winged lion, winged ox, eagle), with small text panels, signed with initials 'IK' [different design to one used in second panel described previously]. Inner panel with floral roll incorporating heads in medallions and heraldic devices, with head- and tail-piece and central strip with foliate stamps. Five raised bands on spine, with blind fillet decoration; spine panels are plain; gilt title on brown morocco spine label.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Claude Garamond (France 1490 -1561)