Biblia Sacra dat is de geheele Heylighe Schrifture bedeylt int Oudt ende Nieu Testament. Van nieus met groote neersticheyt oversien, ende naer den lesten Roomschen text verbetert door sommighe Doctoren inder Heyligher Godtheyt in de vermaerde Universiteyt van Loven.

Antwerp, (D. Vervliet & H. Swingen for) J. Moretus & J. van Keerberghen, 1599

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Folio: [519] ff. (edges of title and first lvs frayed, with wormholes in the lower margins, A1 missing, title and some ff. stained, some corners and margins underlaid, some browning and waterstaining mainly in the beginning).

Mod. brown leather, spine with 5 raised bands.

Original ed. of the Dutch Catholic Moerentorf Bible, in the translation of the Leuven theologian Nicolaus van Winghe (1495-1552). This edition possibly is a reissue printed in the Northern Netherlands (STCV)? Engraved title. 90 sm. woodcuts in-text. Printed in 2 col., in Gothic type.
Ref. BT 474, 7887. - Bibles Paris 1183. - Poortman I:131-133. - STCV 12912250. - STCN 338763945. - USTC 1025919. - Cp. Darlow/Moule 3300 (other issue).
Prov. "Jan Boeten, 1706" (ms. entry on flyleaf). - "b.r Pieter Trystram, 1714" (ms. entry on flyleaf). - Mod. ms. entry, 1966.