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Tes Kaines diathekes apanta - Novum testamentum ex bibliotheca regia

Paris
Robert Estienne
1549

€300 - €600

2 vol. in-16mo, 528; 361, [3] pp, very finely printed in Garamont's 'cicero' fount of the grecs du Roi. Lacking pp. 215-224 in vol.
1. Leather bindings, rubbed (ca. 1800), spines gilt, red edges, marbled end-lvs (hinges of first vol. partially broken, but not loose)

This is the second of two pocket editions of the New Testament published by Estienne in 1546 and 1549; they are known as the 'O mirificam' editions from the openings words of Estienne's preface praising François I for commissioning the fount suitable for texts in small format. The differences between the two editions are fully detailed by Renouard, who describes the 1549 edition as ""beaucoup plus rare"". Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus in Latin) published four Greek New Testaments in the sixteenth century (1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551). The first three editions of his Novum Testamentum were published in Paris, the fourth in Geneva.
Ref. Adams B-1660 ; BP16_112332; Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle conservées à Paris..., Paris, 2003, n° 3689.
Provenance:
ms. ex libris on first title-page

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