Catalogus nr 5.indd - Den Hertog Bolland Rare Books

[ 2 ] Novum Iesu Christi Testamentum, Graecè & Latinè: Theodoro Beza interprete. Additae suntab eodem summae breves doctrinae unoquoque Evangeliorum & Actorum loco comprehensae.Item, methodi Apostolicarum epistolarum brevis explicatio. Huic autem quintae editioni, praetermultorum locorum recognitionem, accesserunt breves difficiliorum phraseon expositiones, & aliaequaedam annotatiunculae, cùm ex maioribus ipsius Bezae annotationibus, tum aliunde excerptae.[Genève], [Jérémie des Planches], 1604. 2 Parts in 1. 8vo. (14) 256 + 210 lvs. Contemporary overlappinggilt-stamped vellum. 650,-Early seventeenth-century edition of Beza’s New Testament, giving the Greek text in the inside columns and Beza’sLatin translation in the outside columns. The text is accompanied by references and substantial marginal notes. Boththe text and the notes are printed from the 1580 edition of Beza’s New Testament, which was edited by Jean Cherpont(1557-ca. 1586) and printed by Henri Estienne, the son of Robert Estienne. The notes in the 1580 edition however arepartially collected from the New Testament published in 1574 by Thomas Vautrollier in London. This edition wasedited by the French Huguenot Pierre Loyseleur de Villiers (ca. 1530-1590) and contains Beza’s annotationes minores aswell as some annotations by Joachim Camerarius. The Greek text of the 1580 edition and the edition above is almostsimilar to the text of Beza’s first major edition of the New Testament published in 1565, which generally followedthe text of the 1551 edition (the fourth and last edition) of Robert Estienne’s New Testament. - Gilt faded and owner’sinscriptions on first free endpaper.VD 17 3:013820E; Darlow & Moule 4630 (note); Bibelsammlung Stuttgart C184.