Author: (HOLY BIBLE)
Title: Jordanszky Kodex
Description: Budapest, Helikon Kiado, 1984. Hardcover. 4to. Full brown blind-embossed calf with raised bands and with ornate brass cornerpieces, centerpieces and clasps. (Ca. 400pp). Extensive full-color illustrations and marbled endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Near fine. Housed in as-issued rustic white cardboard slipcase with large color pictorial label. Very good. Handsome full facsimile of this medieval illuminated manuscript of circa 1516-1519, the earliest surviving translation of the Bible into Hungarian, named after an 18th century bishop who owned the manuscript. Rediscovered in recent centuries in three parts and eventually reunited, the complete manuscript today resides in the Basilica at Esztergom, Hungary. Also housed in this slipcase, as issued, is the volume "A Jordánszky-Kódex: Magyar Nyelvu Bibliafordítás a XVI. Század Elejérol [1516-1519]: Az Esztergomi Foszékesegyházi Könyvtárban orzött Mss. II. 1 Jelzetu Kódex Szövegének Olvasata," a 4to volume (cream paper over boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket) of 237pp containing the text of the Jorandszky Codex. Laid into this are two fine, small 8vo explanatory pamphlets (18pp, 34pp) by Csapodi Csaba. .

Keywords: Religion


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