1580 BIBLE FIRST LATIN BIBLIA PRINTED in ENGLAND by Christopher Barker antique

Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra sive Libri Canonici...
Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti ... 

 (Tremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translators).

London: excudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis C.B. [i.e. Christopher Barker)]; 1580

first complete Latin Bible printed in England

Tremellius (1510-1580), an Italian Jewish convert, was invited to England by Thomas Cranmer in 1547 and was appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge in 1549.
This translation was completed with the help of his son-in-law, Franciscus Junius the Elder (1545-1602), and was long considered the most accurate Latin rendering among the reformers both in England and on the continent. 


 general title with woodcut,
separate title to each part,

blank 4Y4 present at end of Malachi (facing Apocrypha),

New Testament title present (with manuscript ownership to verso),

bound without first nineteen chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel (leaves A1-8),

some minor dust-soiling, 

Original panelled calf, gilt device to centre of each board,

endpapers renewed with recent bookplate to upper pastedown,

modern reback and board corners repaired, lacking ties


Size 6 3/4 by 9 1/3 inches

Text in Latin
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