Author: [BIBLE]. ESTIENNE, Robert (editor).
Title: Biblia breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctis ...Including: - Hebraica, Chaldaea, Graecáque & Latina nomina virorum ...- Index rerum et sentiarum quae in Veteris & novi testamenti libris continentur.Paris, Roberti Stephani [= Robert Estienne], 1532. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With Estienne's large olive-tree device on the general title page and the divisional titles of parts 3 (interpretatio) and 4 (index) page, a woodcut decorative border around the word "Biblia" on the general title page, and 79 decorated metalcut (criblé) initials. Modern gold-tooled brown calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges.
Description: [10], 388; 94; 37; 57, [1], [1 blank] ll.Second enlarged, and first fully glossed, edition of the famed Estienne Bible. The work is "considered the earliest genuine attempt at a critical edition of the Vulgate text... it became practically the foundation of the official Roman Vulgate" (Schreiber). The first edition of this Bible was Estienne's first major work and "immediately established him as the most outstanding figure in the Paris book trade at the time" (Schreiber). The present copy is complete with the glossary and index, which appear as parts 3 and 4. It also includes the beautiful criblé initials by engraver Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533).Robert Estienne (1503-1559) acquired Vulgate manuscripts while he was in Paris and printed a number of editions of them throughout his career, the first in 1528. Unlike the first edition, the present edition features marginal references, short notes, and an extensive index of important Hebrew words. It also includes special signs unique to Estienne that distinguish words found in the Hebrew version of the Bible, but are omitted in the Latin, and vice versa. In the present edition, Estienne also placed the Acts, which were then usually found at the end, between the Gospels and Epistles of Paul for the first time.With an annotation at the top of the title page, another in the middle of the title page, and a signature below. The front and back board are somewhat scratched. The title page has been reinforced in the margins (likely with the final blank of the second part, which is missing) to repair the tear in the bottom half, large ink stains in the inner margin of leaves 243-244 and 306-307 of the first part, a tear in the outer margin of leaf 7 of part 3, minor ink thumb prints on some of the leaves, each leaf has been ruled in reddish-brown ink, with manicules on some of the leaves. Otherwise in very good condition.l Darlow & Moule 6112; Renouard, p. 35.1; USTC 181366; cf. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 37 (other ed.).

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