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(BIBLE IN LATIN AND HEBREW.)
Arba’ah avnei ha-gilyonim me-ha-
Torah ha-Hadasha . . . Quatuor Evangelia Novi Testamenti.
Vulgate text with
Hebrew translation by Giovanni Battista Jona. Title within type ornament border with
woodcut vignette; 4 woodcut divisional headpiece portraits of the Evangelists. [28], 395
pages, including half-title. Folio, 302x210 mm, 20th-century buckram, discolored at top of
front cover; contents browned with marginal dampstaining on opening leaves.
Rome: S. C. Prop. Fidei, 1668
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
of this translation. Jona (1588-1668) was an apostate Jew born in Tsefat
who settled in Rome after a career as a wandering scholar and became reader in Hebrew at the
Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Darlow & Moule 5136; EJ X, 168-
69; Vinograd, Rome 33.
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(BIBLE IN ITALIAN.)
La Bibbia; cioe, I Libri del Vecchio, e del Nuovo
Testamento.
[4], 847, [1]; 178, [2]; 314 pages. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 247x170 mm,
late 18th-/early 19th-century calf, quite worn, spine and joints cracked, cords intact; con-
tents browned, dampstain in upper margin of opening leaves, title soiled, frayed and
mounted, later owners’ inscriptions on front endpapers.
[Geneva], 1607
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
of the translation by Giovanni Diodati, the standard Italian Protestant ver-
sion. Darlow & Moule 5598.
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(BIBLE IN LATIN.)
Biblia cum summariorum apparatu pleno quadrupli-
ciq[ue] repertorio insignita.
Title in red and black with woodcut device of Jean Petit;
full-page woodcut of the Creation on 2d8v; 3 text illustrations. [79] (of [80]), 480 leaves;
lacks G8 (blank or with device?). 8vo, 148x96 mm, modern leather with metal catches and
clasps and paper lettering piece; light dampstaining through much of volume, small area of
bottom edges gnawed not affecting text, title soiled with margins reinforced, the nakedness
of Adam and Eve partly inked out in the Creation woodcut, early owner’s inscriptions on
2d8r and last page. Adams B994; Darlow & Moule 6103 note.
(Paris: [Jean Petit for] Jean Prevel, 4 August 1519)
[500/750]