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Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. First Gryphius edition. Read More Item Details for De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, & Mithridaticus [Translated from the Greek by P. Candidus] Add to Wish List

Item #62361

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Copenhagen: Trykt hos Andreas Seidelein, 1820. First edition in Danish, and the second complete translation in any language. Handsome copy of a Danish translation of the classic epic poem Beowulf by Bishop N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872). Grundtvig was the first great Beowulf scholar, and his Danish translation is only the second.....  Read More Item Details for Bjowulfs Drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim Add to Wish List

Item #345988

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London: Roger Daniel, 1653. The rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek, the scarce printing in quarto format. The text is derived from the Sixtine text, and edited by John Biddle (1615-1662), the Unitarian controversialist who was imprisoned by.....  Read More Item Details for Hē Palaia Diathēkē kata tous Hebdomēkonta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum, juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, accuratissime & ad amussim recusum Add to Wish List

Item #371930

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Lyon: Jacob Sacon for Anton Koberger, 1512. First of a series of illustrated Bibles printed by Jacob Sacon for Anton Koberger of Nuremberg, between the years 1512 through 1522 — other editions being 1513, 1515, 1516, 1519, and 1522. Read More Item Details for Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti & sacrorum canonum: necnon & additionibus in marginibus varietatis diuersorum textuum ac etiam canonibus antiquis quatuor euangeliorum insertis summa cum diligentia reuisa correcta et emendata Add to Wish List

Item #372711

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Antwerp: Martin Caesar, 1534. This edition follows Robert Etienne’s second edition of 1532 very closely in form and content: in the preliminaries, the preface by Stephanus is here printed anonymously. Early glosses and annotations. Read More Item Details for Biblia. Breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctiss, interpretationibus, & hebraeorum commentariis. Interpretatio propriorum nominum hebraicorum. Index copiosissimus rerum & sententiarum vtriusque testamenti Add to Wish List

Item #372721

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[Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger], 1483. Fifth 'Fontibus ex Graecis' edition. The colophon, dated but without publisher or place, notes this as a Fontibus ex Graecis Bible: part of "a series of corrected Latin Bibles, which claim for themselves—apparently with justice—a superiority above all contemporary editions. They are known as the 'Fontibus.....  Read More Item Details for [Biblia latina] Add to Wish List

Item #372162

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Amsterdam: Apud Guilielmum Blaeu, 1633. Only Blaeu edition. Based on the text of Beza's third edition but emended in places with readings from other editions, particularly the second Estienne/Stephanus editions (Darlow & Moule). Read More Item Details for Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta [in Greek] Add to Wish List

Item #378209

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Lutetia (i.e. Paris): Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, 1549. Second Estienne edition. Produced in his twin capacities as a skilled printer and a trained classical scholar, the Biblical output of Robert Estienne (Latinized as Stephanus) "had perhaps more influence than that of any other single man in the sixteenth.....  Read More Item Details for Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta [in Greek]. Novum Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia Add to Wish List

Item #378214

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Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1624. First Elzevir edition. "The first of the Elzevir editions, printed at the press established at Leyden by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir, and celebrated for their fine type, paper and convenient size" (Darlow & Moule). The text is based on the 1565 version.....  Read More Item Details for [Title in Greek:] Hē Kainē Diathēkē. Novum Testamentum Add to Wish List

Item #378211

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Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c. 1480]. Johann Zainer the Elder (fl. 1472-93) established the first printing press at Ulm, where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer’s name and the city in which it was printed. ISTC gives a......  Read More Item Details for Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum Add to Wish List

Item #254000

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[Venice: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 1483]. With additions by Franciscus Moneliensis and Quintius Aemilianus. This is grouped with the Fontibus ex Graecis editions of the corrected Latin text (though this edition does not include the Latin verses). Leaf a1v prints a letter by Franciscus Moneliensis in which he praises the.....  Read More Item Details for Biblia Latina Add to Wish List

Item #372104

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Rome: Ex Typographia Apostolica Vaticana, 1590. First edition of the Sixtine Vulgate Bible. The Sixtine Bible, containing the Vulgate text as edited by Pope Sixtus V, intended as the first ecclesiastically authorized text to be used throughout Christendom. “In its text it comes closer to R. Stephanus’ Bible of 1538-40.....  Read More Item Details for Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis tribus tomus distincta Add to Wish List

Item #372093

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[Nuremberg: Per Foedericum Peypus Sumptu…Johannis Koberger, December 1522]. "In this revision of the current Vulgate the editor, Andreas Osiander the elder…not only emended the text by substituting other readings (many of which, according to Masch, had already appeared in A. Koburger's [sic] fifteenth-century Bibles), but also, in the O.T., added.....  Read More Item Details for Biblia Sacra utriusq[ue] Testamenti Add to Wish List

Item #378141