Lot 28•
BIBLE, IN GREEK [The Sistine Septuagint], Rome, Francesco Zanetti, 1586 [changed in ink, as always, to 1587]
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BIBLE, IN GREEK
[The Sistine Septuagint], title in Greek and Latin, with large vignette of the arms of Sixtus V flanked by Moses and Esdras, text in Greek with short Latin notes at the end of each verse, double-column, woodcut ornament on verse headings, title spotted with small hole in blank area beneath vignette and remnants of bookplate on blank verso, thin trace of worming in lower margin at opening, reducing to 2 then one small wormhole through to p.304, a few odd pages toned, light damp-stain in lower margin of approximately 5 pages, ink annotation in Greek on 2 pages, nineteenth-century calf, gilt morocco spine labels, worn, covers detached [Darlow & Moule 4647 (fourth variant)], folio (343 x 235mm.), Rome, Francesco Zanetti, 1586 [changed in ink, as always, to 1587]
Footnotes
"Prepared under the auspices of Sixtus V, this important recension is known as the "Sixtine" or "Roman" edition of the Septuagint, and possesses in the Roman Church an authority similar to that of the 'Sixtine-Clementine" Vulgate'" (Darlow and Moule). Edited by Cardinal Antonio Carafa the text is based on the Codex Vaticanus. Zanetti did not have large enough Greek type for the first two lines of the title so a few of the roman capitals are altered in ink.