Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Anonymous
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co_m_plecte_n_s, dilige_n_ter recognita et eme_n_data. Cu_m_
concorda_n_tijs simul et argume_n_tis: cu_m_q_ue_ iuris canoni_c_i allegationib_us_ passim adnotatis. Insup_er_ i_n_ calce eiusde_m_ annexe su_n_t no_m_i_nu_m Hebraico_rum_, Chaldeo_rum_, atq_ue_ Greco_rum_ interp_re_tatio_n_es. Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_. [Printer's device (shield bearing the initials T.K. suspended from a tree and supported by two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and the device framed in a woodcut border]. _Fol. 562^a_, COLOPHON: Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola_n_de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso]. Octavo. Sign. A^8, B^4, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y^8, Z^6, aaa-eee^8. 602 leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title, _Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium_. Gabriel Bruno's _Tabula alphabetica historiarum_; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30 unnumbered leaves _Index rerum et sententiarum_; 40 unnumbered leaves _Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum_, etc. Very small gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2, 149. The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Græcis" editions, 1478 ff., |
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