PSALTER -- Quincuplex Psalterium . Edited by Jacques Le Fèvre d'Etaples. Paris: Henri Estienne, 13 June 1513. 2° (030 x 198mm). Roman, Greek and Hebrew types, printed in red and black. Woodcut full-page title-border, woodcut diagram, woodcut ornamental criblé initials. (Tiny hole in title, paper flaw just touching headline in d5, a little faint marginal spotting.) Contemporary German half blindstamped pigskin over wooden board, two fore-edge clasps, fragments of 12th-century Bible manuscript on vellum at joints, title written on fore-edges (lightly rubbed, back board starting to crack, neat tear at raised band). Provenance : Johannes Fuessl (contemporary title inscriptions, occasional annotations) -- S. Maria in Sylvis, 1687 (title inscription) -- W. Jackson (booklabels). SECOND EDITION of a typographic masterpiece and an important contribution to humanist Biblical scholarship. The Renaissance maxim ad fontes , back to the source, informs Lefèvre's work and he here provides five versions of the Psalms, the three of St. Jerome in parallel columns. The ease and clarity of presentation for comparison and study was masterfully met by Estienne. The present second edition is arguably more elegant than the first of 1509, since it allows more space. Adams B-1395; D & M 6095; Schreiber, Estienne 8 (1509 ed.); Mortimer, Harvard French , 62.
PSALTER -- Quincuplex Psalterium . Edited by Jacques Le Fèvre d'Etaples. Paris: Henri Estienne, 13 June 1513. 2° (030 x 198mm). Roman, Greek and Hebrew types, printed in red and black. Woodcut full-page title-border, woodcut diagram, woodcut ornamental criblé initials. (Tiny hole in title, paper flaw just touching headline in d5, a little faint marginal spotting.) Contemporary German half blindstamped pigskin over wooden board, two fore-edge clasps, fragments of 12th-century Bible manuscript on vellum at joints, title written on fore-edges (lightly rubbed, back board starting to crack, neat tear at raised band). Provenance : Johannes Fuessl (contemporary title inscriptions, occasional annotations) -- S. Maria in Sylvis, 1687 (title inscription) -- W. Jackson (booklabels). SECOND EDITION of a typographic masterpiece and an important contribution to humanist Biblical scholarship. The Renaissance maxim ad fontes , back to the source, informs Lefèvre's work and he here provides five versions of the Psalms, the three of St. Jerome in parallel columns. The ease and clarity of presentation for comparison and study was masterfully met by Estienne. The present second edition is arguably more elegant than the first of 1509, since it allows more space. Adams B-1395; D & M 6095; Schreiber, Estienne 8 (1509 ed.); Mortimer, Harvard French , 62.
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