Biblia sacra dat is de geheele Heylighe Scrifture bedeylt int Out en Nieuw Testament (...) - 1244 - 1646
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Christopher of Shechem [after Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Penez, Goltzius] - Biblia sacra that is the entire Heylighe Scrifture in the Out and New Testament reviewed and corrected after the last Roman text. Decorated with many beautiful figures. Carved by Christoffel Van Sichem. V. P. I. P. [For P. J. Paets] . First t'Antwerp, by Jan Van Moerentorf and now reprinted by Pieter Jacopsz Paets, 1657 & The New Testament our Salichmaeckers Iesu Christi, together with d'Epistelen, from the Old Testament…Oversen ende improves . . . by . . . Henricus van den Leemputte . . . Decorated with many beautiful figures, carved by Christoffel Van Sichem.
- Antwerp, Cornelis Verschuren, and now reprinted by Pieter Jacopsz. Paets, 1646 - 2 parts in 1 volume - (8) + 11-1265 pp. / 468 + (6) pp. + 1244 wood engravings in text - leather binding with oak boards; back with strong ribs; 4 copper corner pieces and remaining closures - 38 x 27 cm (FOLIO format)
Condition: (very) good - neat binding with very solid joints (closing straps are missing as is often the case, spine renewed with beautiful old leather, retaining the leather on the boards) ; (very) neat and clean pages (two title engravings and title page pasted on old paper, pages 2 to 10 restored at the edges with strips of (rice) paper, diminishing light moisture stains on pages 2 to 100, two pages trimmed, a single bite or small spot, (very) light moisture spots in margins spread across the Bible. Average neat and clean paper! .
Contains no fewer than 1244 beautiful wood engravings with a medieval appearance.
Darker and sharper prints, all true works of art!
Curious: with an extra title engraving bound in the front.
Moreover, it features hundreds of vignettes and very beautiful capitals ('illuminated capital letters') .
Please look at the hundreds of photos and convince yourself of their beauty.
3314; Poortman I, page 134; Le Long, Boekzaal, p. 630-631: "This was held for the Roman Catholics as the Very Best Bible and Print (. . .) ".
Poortman: "The Moerentorf Bible was often reprinted, sometimes with Beham's pictures, sometimes without pictures. We only want to discuss one emphasis here, because this Bible with its 1200 woodcuts far exceeds all other reprints" [= this 1657/1646 edition] .
Rare and valuable picture Bible, the most beautiful ever printed!
Collectors item!
EXPLANATION
Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated bible ever issued in the Low Countries, being at the same time the Roman Catholic pendant of the Dutch States-Bible (Statenbijbel) . The Moerentorf Bible with extraordinary success and became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics for almost three centuries, being repeatedly reprinted as the official Dutch translation of the Vulgate in the Low Countries. Jan Moerentorf, better known as Jan Moretus, published this revised Dutch translation of the Old and New Testament together in 1599 with the title Biblia sacra.
Splendid illustrated corrected edition of the Dutch Roman Catholic Bible. The first part is an update of the standard Antwerp 1599 edition of Jan Moretus. The second part is a revised version (by Henricus van den Leemputte) of the New Testament edition of Cornelis Verschuren.
The so-called 'Shechem Bible', richly illustrated by Christopher of Shechem (the Elder and the Younger) , contains the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha in the corrected Roman edition. The Old Testament and Apocrypha after the Antwerp edition of Jean Moretus ('Moerentorf Bible') of 1599 and the New Testament. . .
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EXCLUSIVE BIBLE
Christopher of Shechem [after Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Penez, Goltzius] - Biblia sacra that is the entire Heylighe Scrifture in the Out and New Testament reviewed and corrected after the last Roman text. Decorated with many beautiful figures. Carved by Christoffel Van Sichem. V. P. I. P. [For P. J. Paets] . First t'Antwerp, by Jan Van Moerentorf and now reprinted by Pieter Jacopsz Paets, 1657 & The New Testament our Salichmaeckers Iesu Christi, together with d'Epistelen, from the Old Testament…Oversen ende improves . . . by . . . Henricus van den Leemputte . . . Decorated with many beautiful figures, carved by Christoffel Van Sichem.
- Antwerp, Cornelis Verschuren, and now reprinted by Pieter Jacopsz. Paets, 1646 - 2 parts in 1 volume - (8) + 11-1265 pp. / 468 + (6) pp. + 1244 wood engravings in text - leather binding with oak boards; back with strong ribs; 4 copper corner pieces and remaining closures - 38 x 27 cm (FOLIO format)
Condition: (very) good - neat binding with very solid joints (closing straps are missing as is often the case, spine renewed with beautiful old leather, retaining the leather on the boards) ; (very) neat and clean pages (two title engravings and title page pasted on old paper, pages 2 to 10 restored at the edges with strips of (rice) paper, diminishing light moisture stains on pages 2 to 100, two pages trimmed, a single bite or small spot, (very) light moisture spots in margins spread across the Bible. Average neat and clean paper! .
Contains no fewer than 1244 beautiful wood engravings with a medieval appearance.
Darker and sharper prints, all true works of art!
Curious: with an extra title engraving bound in the front.
Moreover, it features hundreds of vignettes and very beautiful capitals ('illuminated capital letters') .
Please look at the hundreds of photos and convince yourself of their beauty.
3314; Poortman I, page 134; Le Long, Boekzaal, p. 630-631: "This was held for the Roman Catholics as the Very Best Bible and Print (. . .) ".
Poortman: "The Moerentorf Bible was often reprinted, sometimes with Beham's pictures, sometimes without pictures. We only want to discuss one emphasis here, because this Bible with its 1200 woodcuts far exceeds all other reprints" [= this 1657/1646 edition] .
Rare and valuable picture Bible, the most beautiful ever printed!
Collectors item!
EXPLANATION
Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated bible ever issued in the Low Countries, being at the same time the Roman Catholic pendant of the Dutch States-Bible (Statenbijbel) . The Moerentorf Bible with extraordinary success and became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics for almost three centuries, being repeatedly reprinted as the official Dutch translation of the Vulgate in the Low Countries. Jan Moerentorf, better known as Jan Moretus, published this revised Dutch translation of the Old and New Testament together in 1599 with the title Biblia sacra.
Splendid illustrated corrected edition of the Dutch Roman Catholic Bible. The first part is an update of the standard Antwerp 1599 edition of Jan Moretus. The second part is a revised version (by Henricus van den Leemputte) of the New Testament edition of Cornelis Verschuren.
The so-called 'Shechem Bible', richly illustrated by Christopher of Shechem (the Elder and the Younger) , contains the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha in the corrected Roman edition. The Old Testament and Apocrypha after the Antwerp edition of Jean Moretus ('Moerentorf Bible') of 1599 and the New Testament. . .
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