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Bible, in Latin

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06.10.2022 12:00UTC -04:00
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ID 813628
Lot 11 | Bible, in Latin
Bible, in Latin

Jacob Sacon, 1506

BIBLE, in Latin. [Lyon:] Jacob Sacon, 10 November 1506.



First Sacon edition of the Bible, with attractive painted initials and in a red morocco binding. Sacon was “by far the most famous and important printer of Bibles [at Lyon] in the early sixteenth century” (Van Gulik). Although he would later execute a series of illustrated Bibles for Koberger, this was his first solo effort. It may be an attempt at a subtle Giunta piracy; the fleur-de-lys seems to imitate their device, and the colophon omits any mention of Lyon, instead describing the book as "printed in Venetian characters." Darlow & Moule 6091; see Egbertus Van Gulik, Erasmus and his Books.



Folio (299 x 210mm). Title printed in red and black. 8-line initials in red and blue with tonal flourishes in red and green or brown, smaller red and blue Lombard capitals, red capital strokes. Woodcut fleur-de-lys on title and printer's device at end, with hand-colored woodcut initials (first leaf with top margin renewed just touching top edge of type, smaller repairs around blank edges of some leaves, final leaf laid down with inner margin shaved). 18th-century red morocco gilt with border of stag hunt, gauffered gilt edges (neatly rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance: Josias Lorck (Copenhagen cleric, inscription on title) – John Barton (armorial bookplate).

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