Text in Greek with short Latin notes at the end of each verse, in two columns. Large engraved vignette on title with figures of Moses and Esdras on either side of the arms of Sixtus V. a⁴ A-3S⁶ 3T⁸. [8], 783, [1]pp. Folio. Eighteenth century red morocco, arms of the second Duke of Newcastle on the covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, minor darkening to spine and wear to joints. Scattered minor dampstaining at lower outer corner of a few leaves. Provenance: Collegii Paris. Societas Jesu.(early inscription on title); Douglass Maxwell Moffat (booklabel, with original invoice purchasing the volume from Davis & Orioli in 1940); General Theological Seminary (bookplates). Darlow & Moule no. 4647; Adams B1246; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 94.

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Commissioned by Pope Sixtus V to assist the revisers who were preparing the Latin Vulgate edition ordered by the Council of Trent, the "Sixtine" or "Roman" edition of the Septuagint was edited by Cardinal Antonio Carafa based on the Codex Vaticanus and became the standard for all the later editions of the Septuagint for three centuries after its publication.