La biblia la quale in se contiene I sacrosanti libri del Vecchio & Nuouo Testamento, I quail ti apporto Christianissimo Lettore, nuouamente tradotti da la Hebraica & Greca uerita in Lingua Toscana. / Per Antonio Brucioli. Con le concordantie di tutta essa scrittura santa. …
Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566)
Category
Books
Date
1541
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241386
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 230, 241-279 leaves, leaf 276, 271-2, 274-278, 289-376, 102 leaves ; fol. Pencil “154” on front pastedown. Imperfect: wanting leaf 247 (sig. T1) which has been replaced with a blank leaf. Ink splodges on leaves 130, 196, 230, 245, 359 (first count). Small seventeenth-century ink manuscript notes against marginal notes on leaf 50 (second count). Provenance: Notes on first flyleaf in Edward Browne’s hand, without a signature [i.e. Edward Browne (1644–1708), physician and traveller; library sold at auction in 1711]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on six raised cords; gilt spine tooling; red spine label; double blind fillet on covers; gilt roll on board edges; single blind fillet on board inners; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566), translator