ANNOTATED VULGATE
[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’, 1599.
One vol. bound in four, 8vo, pp. 1032, 24, [52 (index)], [2 (device, blank)]; with copper-engraved title, woodcut device ‘labore et constantia’ to final leaf; occasional toning, some marginal worming at beginning of vol. II; a very good copy in eighteenth-century vellum over boards, spines lettered and upper boards numbered in ink, edges speckled red; a few marks, some wear to fore-edges, some loss to upper cover of vol. III; interleaved throughout with scattered eighteenth- and nineteenth-century annotations in four hands; ownership inscription ‘F. Gonet’ to upper pastedowns, later ink stamps to title and flyleaves, including those of the Capuchins of Lyons and of Taggia, Italy.
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Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita.
Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate, bound in four volumes and interleaved for scholarly annotations.
First issued in 1592 by Clement VIII, this was only the second edition of the Vulgate Bible to be authorised by a pope, following the short-lived Sixtine Vulgate issued by Sixtus V in 1590. Jan Moretus, Christophe Plantin’s son-in-law, was granted special permission by Clement VIII to print this edition in Antwerp; the pope’s letter to Moretus appears here among the preliminaries.
The annotations to the interleaved blanks in this copy bear witness to its continued scholarly use by four readers over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An eighteenth-century scholar, writing in a very neat minuscule hand, has made extensive notes to Genesis, in Latin with occasional Greek and Hebrew, referencing Augustine, Ambrose, Irenaeus, and Tertullian, for example, as well as other books of the Bible. A late nineteenth-century annotator has left notes in French, and occasional Latin, to Genesis, Isaiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Revelations.
Adams B1106; USTC 407065. See Darlow & Moule 6184.
