# Testamenti novi. Editio vulgata, Lyon, 1544

**Titolo bibliografico:** BIBLE-NEW TESTAMENT IN LATIN. Testamenti novi. Editio vulgata

**Dati editoriali:** Lyon, Sébastien Gryphius, 1544

**Codice archivio:** 199

**Prezzo:** 1900.00 USD

**Stato commerciale:** Disponibile

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## Descrizione accademica e analisi

Two parts in one volume, 16mo (120x78 mm). 496; 351, [17] pp. Collation: a-z8 A-H8 2a-z8. Woodcut printer’s device on the title page and several half-page woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, the covers with a broad ornamental border and a central stamp of the Virgin and Child, spine in compartments (binding restored). Pale dampstaining in the lower margin throughout the volume, final quires heavily stained. Overall a genuine copy bearing numerous marginal and interlinear annotations in Latin, most in a single hand probably dating from the second half of the sixteenth century. The front endleaf bears a manuscript summary of the twelve degrees of humility in a more deliberate script, possibly by another hand. Separate gift and purchase inscriptions appear on the front endpaper, the latter recording that the volume was bought in Florence for twenty soldi. On the title page between the printed title and the griffin device is a cursive inscription, not securely deciphered, with the number 451 below and to the right. A pocket edition of the Latin New Testament, printed two years before the Council of Trent’s decree on the Vulgate. The edition includes the Acta apostolorum, St. Pauls’ letters and St. John’s Apocalypse. An early buyer recorded the transaction on the front endpaper: Emi Florentie solidis 20 (“I bought it in Florence for twenty soldi”). A separate inscription above it begins Ex dono. Much of the Latin marginal and interlinear annotation appears to be in one hand, probably of the second half of the sixteenth century. Beside James 1:4 (II, p. [254]), a reader underlined the words on patience and supplied a reference precise enough to recover the argument: Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, I–II, q. 66, a. 4, ad 2. Patience, Aquinas explains, is perfect in bearing adversity, not superior to every other virtue. At Ephesians 3:15 (II, p. 133), the gloss follows his Super Epistolam ad Ephesios, ch. 3, lect. 4: an angel who enlightens another may be called its father, much as a teacher is father to a pupil. The notes at John 16:15 (I, p. 366) and Philippians 2:6 (II, p. 145) draw on two passages from a single paragraph of a sermon transmitted under Augustine’s name (Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo 234, De fide catholica II, §2). The front endleaf, in a more formal script, possibly another hand, lists the twelve degrees of humility from the Rule of St Benedict, ch. 7, in wording close to Aquinas, Summa theologiae, II–II, q. 161, a. 6, obj. 1.

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## Bibliografia di riferimento

Italian Union Catalogue (SBN), RMLE024053; D. Bufalini, R. Landi and G. Zannoni, “Catalogo delle cinquecentine straniere conservate nella Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio (lettera B)”, L’Archiginnasio, 81 (1986), p. 251, no. 263.

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