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Plantin Press] - Novum Iesu Christi Testamentum . Quid, in hac editione, a Theologis Louaniensibus, sit praestitum, sequenti praefatione indicatur. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1574, 24mo, cont. vellum (soiled), flat spine (sm. wormholes), [16]-612-[92] pp. (paper age-toned, occ. minor soiling). Very good copy.
Extr. rare small-format New Testament, containing the 1st ed. of the Notationes in Novum Testamentum by Franciscus Lucas (1549-1619). Privilege of May 1573. Published separately and also as part of a pocket Bible in 6 vols (PP 687). “Voet pense à tort que cette éd. est incomplète du N.T., car selon lui le N.T. in-24 aurait été imprimé dès 1573 (Voet 707). Le N.T. a une p. de titre propre qui est bien datée 1574” (Bibles Paris). Woodcut mark on title. Old name on front endpaper and fore-edge (‘De Marinis’). Ref. Bibles Paris 936 (1: BnF). Sorgeloos 150. Not in Voet! (should be 687.VI). Not in Adams, BL, B.T., Darlow/Moule. Cp Pettegree NB 4747 (16mo ed.). Cp Voet 707 1573: 1 at Oxford).