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BIBLE.
Paris?, circa 1510] (with)
ACTUS APOSTOLORUM.
[Paris], Pierre Viart [1521]. 1521
£5950.00
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24mo. Two works in one. 1) ff. ccxxii. Lettre Bâtarde. Charming miniature woodcut depicting St. Jerome with lion repeated on four titles, elegant eight line white on black criblée initials. 2) ff. 42. Roman letter. Title within beautiful woodcut border in two parts incorporating Pierre Viart's monogram and device in lower block, capital spaces with guide letters, library stamp "Marcos y Francisco Vinals. Madrid" on verso of last. Light age yellowing, title a little dusty with small tear at gutter not affecting text, light waterstain in the first two thirds of the work, the odd marginal thumb mark, corner torn on folio 12 of the Acts with loss of a few letters. A very good copy, crisp and clean, in C19th black morocco "Janseniste", spine with raised bands, title gilt lettered in one compartment, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.r. An exceptionally rare post incunable miniature Bible, beautifully printed in a minuscule Lettre Bâtarde and charmingly illustrated with four miniature woodcuts repeated of St. Jerome, bound with an equally rare miniature Acts of the Apostles printed in Paris by Jean Viart recorded in only two copies. We have not been able to find any copies of the first Bible. It consists of the books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges. The fine miniscule Bâtarde and the beautiful initials suggest a Paris printing probably from the turn of the sixteenth century. The Acts were printed by Pierre Viart in Paris and Renouard states that a second part the Apocalypse should be found with it. It is possible that there were also other parts printed of this "New Testament" but none seem to have survived. Such early miniature Bibles are known in only a few handful of copies, their size and portability meant that they were well travelled and used and did not survive in anything like the quantity of the larger sized Bibles, and those that did are often found in fragments and poor condition. A rare survival. 1) Apparently unrecorded.
2) Renouard 'Inventaire Chronologique des Editions Parisiennes du XVI Siecle' III, 26. Recording two copies only.
L1125
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