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BIBLE N.T. GREEK

Tes Kaines diathekes hapanta. Novum Iesu Christi Domni Nostri Testamentum

[Geneva
Jean Crispin
1553]

€300 - €400

8vo, 796, [4] pp, lacking pp. 1-6 (introduction). Entirely printed in Greek. Woodcut printer's device (anchor and snake). With numerous annotations. Errors in pagination. 18th c. calf binding, spine richly gilt, marbled edges, marbled end-lvs

Ref. Adams B-1664 ; Darlow & Moule, 4626: ""The first Greek Testament issued by Jean Crispin , the French printer of Geneva, who published many editions of the Scriptures in various languages."" Jean Crispin was a French Protestant lawyer, he was a friend of John Calvin, in 1545 he was banished from the Catholic Low Countries. Provenance: Collegii Lugdun. Soc. Jesu 1614

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