BIBLE, New Testament, Greek and Latin. Jesv Christi D.N. Novum testamentum, sive Novum foedus , edited and with Latin translation by Theodore Beza (1519-1605). [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, for Ulrich Fugger, 1565. 2° (345 x 213mm), Greek, Hebrew, and roman types, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut diagrams, decorative initials and headpieces (lightly browned, some light marginal spotting), German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, tooled with rolls and saints' panels, front cover lettered "S L D 1575", two fore-edge clasps. Provenance : Electors of Saxony (inscriptions dated 1581); A. Goode (19th-century inscriptions). FIRST EDITION OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT BY THEODORE BEZE, one of the most learned scholars of the Reformation. His edition, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth of England, exercised considerable influence on subsequent English editions of the Bible, culminating in the Authorised Version (1611). This copy bears the names of the brothers Johann Casimir, Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Coburg (1564-1633) and Johann Ernst III Herzog of Sachsen-Eisenach (1566-1638) and others, dated at Coburg, 1581. Darlow and Moule 4629; Schreiber 155.
BIBLE, New Testament, Greek and Latin. Jesv Christi D.N. Novum testamentum, sive Novum foedus , edited and with Latin translation by Theodore Beza (1519-1605). [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, for Ulrich Fugger, 1565. 2° (345 x 213mm), Greek, Hebrew, and roman types, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut diagrams, decorative initials and headpieces (lightly browned, some light marginal spotting), German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, tooled with rolls and saints' panels, front cover lettered "S L D 1575", two fore-edge clasps. Provenance : Electors of Saxony (inscriptions dated 1581); A. Goode (19th-century inscriptions). FIRST EDITION OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT BY THEODORE BEZE, one of the most learned scholars of the Reformation. His edition, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth of England, exercised considerable influence on subsequent English editions of the Bible, culminating in the Authorised Version (1611). This copy bears the names of the brothers Johann Casimir, Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Coburg (1564-1633) and Johann Ernst III Herzog of Sachsen-Eisenach (1566-1638) and others, dated at Coburg, 1581. Darlow and Moule 4629; Schreiber 155.
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