BIBLE, in Dutch -- Den Bibel, tgeheele Oude ende Nieuwe Testament . Antwerp: Willem Vorsterman, 2 February 1545; 31 August 1545. 2° (300 x 199mm). Title and calendar leaves printed in red and black. Woodcut 4-part historiated title border incorporating the device of Martin Keyser, repeated on New Testament title with substitution in lower border, woodcut canon tables, numerous woodcuts, large device on final verso incorporating the arms of Antwerp. (Some dampstaining, title a little soiled with short tears at edges and on guard affecting corner of the border, small marginal wormtrack in one quire.) Near-contemporary blindstamped calf with central arabesque medallion, brass corner-pieces, two fore-edge clasps (some wear at spine). The Old Testament woodcuts are those used by Martin Keyser in his French Bible of 1530, many of which are by Schön and Springinklee; the Gospel cuts had appeared in Vorsterman's 1528 Bible; and the Apocalypse cuts are after Holbein, copied from a set in van Ruremund's New Testament of c.1526 (cf. B. Rosier, The Bible in Print: Netherlandish Bible Illustration in the 16th-century , 1997). Not in BLSTC Dutch ; Belgica Typographica 5203 (1544 ed.); D & M 3285 (1542 edition).
BIBLE, in Dutch -- Den Bibel, tgeheele Oude ende Nieuwe Testament . Antwerp: Willem Vorsterman, 2 February 1545; 31 August 1545. 2° (300 x 199mm). Title and calendar leaves printed in red and black. Woodcut 4-part historiated title border incorporating the device of Martin Keyser, repeated on New Testament title with substitution in lower border, woodcut canon tables, numerous woodcuts, large device on final verso incorporating the arms of Antwerp. (Some dampstaining, title a little soiled with short tears at edges and on guard affecting corner of the border, small marginal wormtrack in one quire.) Near-contemporary blindstamped calf with central arabesque medallion, brass corner-pieces, two fore-edge clasps (some wear at spine). The Old Testament woodcuts are those used by Martin Keyser in his French Bible of 1530, many of which are by Schön and Springinklee; the Gospel cuts had appeared in Vorsterman's 1528 Bible; and the Apocalypse cuts are after Holbein, copied from a set in van Ruremund's New Testament of c.1526 (cf. B. Rosier, The Bible in Print: Netherlandish Bible Illustration in the 16th-century , 1997). Not in BLSTC Dutch ; Belgica Typographica 5203 (1544 ed.); D & M 3285 (1542 edition).
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