WITH FLORAL ENDPAPERS FROM FÜRTH
[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:] Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V pont. max. jussu recognitum atque editum.
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.
Eight volumes, 12mo, pp. 16, 500; 449, [3 (blank)]; 383, [1 (blank)]; 407, [1 (blank)]; 583, [1 (blank)]; 463, [3 (blank)]; [2], 296; [2], 297–661, [7]; woodcut initials and headpieces; ink corrosion from inscriptions to title-pages of vols 7 and 8 with some staining to following pages, closed tear to title-page of vol. 8, toned, occasional small spots; nonetheless a very good set in eighteenth-century brown morocco, gilt border to covers composed of repeated drawer handle, flower, and bird tools, with dots and stars, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt and marbled edges, orange floral patterned gilt brocade endpapers signed ‘bey Iohann Kochel’ and ‘I.K.F.R.H.M. Furth’; extremities a little worn, spines slightly sunned, some rubbing to endpapers; inscription to titles ‘ex libris Claudii [surname crossed through and replaced with] Meunier sacerdotis'.
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Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:] Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vulgatae editionis, Sixti V pont. max. jussu recognitum atque editum.
An attractively bound copy of the Old and New Testament in the Vulgate version, issued by the noted Parisian printer Jacques Vincent (1671–1760).
The beautiful gilt brocade floral endpapers are the work of Johann Köchel (c. 1682–1726) from the German city of Fürth, adjacent to Nuremberg.
Provenance: perhaps the semi-prebendary canon Claude Meunier (1765–1823) of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame de Moulins in Allier, who in 1793 was one of c. 830 clergymen deported during the French Revolution and held in prison ships off Rochefort under inhumane conditions; Meunier, against all odds, survived (unlike some 500 of his companions) and returned to Moulins.