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New Testament [Greek]. Novum Jesu Christ D.N. Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, Paris: Roberti Stephani, 1550, [32], 272 (really 268), 202, [2]pp., printer's woodcut device to title (short closed tear to lower blank margin and vertical crease) and device to verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut initials and decorative section dividers, d5 & n7 with early annotation & ink show through, 2 small ink burn holes to I3, q3 & B8 torn with slight loss, closed tears to A2 and lower blank margin of B2, few scattered small worm holes, some general toning, occasional faint ink spots and some spotting mostly to margins, armorial bookplate of John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, Earl of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester (1645-1713) to upper pastedown, early 18th century mottled calf, gilt decorated spine and double-rule border to boards, joints cracked mostly at head & foot, rubbed and some wear to extremities, folio (leaf size 32 x 20cm) (Qty: 1) Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622. The collation of this volume agrees with Darlow & Moule, *8, **8, a-q8, r6, A-M8, N6. Provenance: John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (1645-1713), was created Lord Treasurer in 1695, and appointed Lord High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament in 1704. He was Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1704–1705. Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus in Latin) published four Greek New Testaments in the sixteenth century (1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551). The first three editions of his Novum Testamentum were published in Paris, the fourth in Geneva. His third edition of 1550 was affectionately known as Editio Regia, because of the magnificent Greek font and large folio size of the codex. Not only the most handsome, the 1550 Stephanus is also the most important of his texts. This was the first published Greek New Testament to have a textual apparatus. Stephanus examined 15 manuscripts and listed several of their readings in the margins of his Editio Regia. Stephanus’s fourth edition was the first to have verse divisions in it, a feature that Stephanus invented to help the reader more easily compare the two Latin translations and the Greek that are found in the fourth edition. Though the text of the third and fourth editions was virtually identical, the fourth became the basis for the Geneva Bible, the first Bible translation to have verse divisions. The 1550 Stephanus also became the standard text to be used as a collating base for countless collations of Greek New Testament manuscripts.