Biblia Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca & Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, vrbium, fluuiorum, montium, caeterorúmque locorum quae in Bibliis leguntur, restituta, cum Latina interpretatione. Locorum descriptio è cosmographis. Index praeterea rerum & sententiarum quae in iisdem Bibliis continentur. His accesserunt schemata Tabernaculi Mosaici, & Templi Salomonis, quae praeeunte Francisco Vatablo Hebraicarum literarum regio professore doctissimo, summa arte & fide expressa sunt.
Robert Estienne (1503-1559)
Category
Books
Date
1540
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3154773
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 268; [1], 104 [i.e. 103]; 90; 92 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 2868. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Ex libris Francisci D'Arnaudin". Binding: sixteenth-century Parisian binding by the Pecking Crow Binder (ca. 1540-1550); gold-tooled and black stained interlacing ribbon/strapwork in a geometrical design, with gilt arabesque lines and leaves, plus four stamps each of the small tools: flower, fleur-de-lys, and bird (the Pecking Crow Binder's mark); all within gilt border of repeated decorative stamps. Front cover has gilt centrepiece shield stained black, with chain and medallion with 'IHS'; gilt lettered above 'Hic Margarites', and below 'Praecunctis'. Rear cover has gilt centrepiece armorial shield stained black, unidentified. Single hole at head and foot and two holes on fore-edge of boards for ties (missing). Board edges have single gilt fillet broken by small gilt floral roll. Spine rebacked with the original spine laid on: 8 raised bands with gilt roll decoration; compartments have gilt roll and floral stamp decoration, the central lozenge stamps incorporating two birds; gilt title on brown morocco label. Gilt and gauffered edges in an arabesque pattern of stylised lines and flowers; the fore-edge gauffered pattern incorporates title 'Biblia' and two crowned fish. Manuscript binding note in pencil on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge, c. 1956". For similar bindings, see catalogue of Wormsley Library (New York, 1999), no. 29, B and C (Wotton Binder A).
Makers and roles
Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Saint Jerome (circa 347-420) Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533) Franciscus Vatablus (d.1547) Gulielmus Fabritius