Het Nieuwe Testament ons heeren Iesu Christi [...].

12mo: [9]-387 (= 367)-[8] ff. (toned, some staining and thumbing, edges of 1st & last ff. frayed, title stained and defects repaired with sellotape).

Mod. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, old fore-edge markers (knots). Notwithstanding the defects an interesting copy.

Extr. rare Dutch Catholic New Testament, by 2 printers/booksellers who only published Dutch books: M. van Roye (act. 1563-1591) and H. Wouters (act. 1573-1591). Ill. with a circular woodcut portrait of Christ on title and 54 sm. woodcuts in text. Title and calendar in red and black. Text in gothic type. Ref. BT 5266. - STC Dutch (BL) 31. - Pettegree NB 4752. - Not in Adams, Bibles Paris, Darlow/Moule. Prov. A number of old reader’s marks and a few old annotations. - Ms. correction slips in Table of Contents. Joined: Janssens, Hermannus, O.F.M.Rec. - Prodromus sacer rectam praeparans semitam ad varia Biblia Sacra Belgico idiomate impressa utiliter emendata. Antwerp, A. Everaerts, 1731. 4to: [16]-366 pp. (lacking final blank; toned, some minor marginal soiling). 18th-c. sheep, spine on 5 raised bands (rubbed, front joint splitting, head and tail def.). Good copy. Critical linguistic comparison of various passages from the Catholic Dutch Bible trsl. of N. van Winghe (1548) and the (later) Clementine Vulgate (1592). Also discusses the "errors" in Jansenist Bible trsls. Ref. STCV 12918604. Prov. Libr. stamp. (2 vols)