Codex Theodori Bezae Cantabrigiensis Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta Complectens Quadratis Literis Graeco-Latinus... edidit codicis historiam praefixit notasque adjecit Thomas Kipling

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Lot #26Codex Theodori Bezae Cantabrigiensis Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta Complectens Quadratis Literis Graeco-Latinus... edidit codicis historiam praefixit notasque adjecit Thomas Kipling

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Heading:

(Bible in Greek & Latin)

Title:

Codex Theodori Bezae Cantabrigiensis Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta Complectens Quadratis Literis Graeco-Latinus... edidit codicis historiam praefixit notasque adjecit Thomas Kipling

Author:

**

Place Published:

Cantabrigiæ [i.e. Cambridge]

Publisher:

E Prelo Academico Impensis Academiæ

Date Published:

1793

Description:

2 volumes. Edited by Thomas Kipling. [4], xxviii, [4], 413; [2], 413-854 pp. 48.5x34 cm. (19x13½"), later green cloth, gilt spine title, inked number. Limited to 250 copies.

The Codex Bezae, one of the treasures of Cambridge University Library, is one of the earliest sources of the New Testament. For this printing, special type was cut to match the style of the manuscript, and the finished work is considered 'the very crown of the Cambridge Press'. A superb typographic facsimile in grand format of one of the earliest New Testament Codices

Condition:

Soiling to the cloth, light soiling to title-pages, which bear the perforated stamp of Hill Library, St. Paul, and there are a few of their rubberstamps. Very good copy, contents untrimmed.

Item#:

213705

Headline:

One of the earliest sources of the New Testament
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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST

Lot #26Codex Theodori Bezae Cantabrigiensis Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta Complectens Quadratis Literis Graeco-Latinus... edidit codicis historiam praefixit notasque adjecit Thomas Kipling

Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST

Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST

Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST