Wolfgang Köpfel (Cephalæus) - Biblia Greca - 1524
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Wolfgang Köpfel (Cephalæus) Biblia Greca is a single 16 x 10 cm volume in 8vo with 240 pages, printed in ancient Greek around 1524–1526 in Strasbourg, bound in old brown leather with spine tooling, Tome VII covering the prophets and hagiographic books.
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[BIBLE IN GREEK - Old Testament]
[Divinae Scripturae, veteris novaeque omnia... / Vetus Testamentum iuxta Septuaginta] [Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel (Cephalæus), circa 1524-1526.
1 volume in-8 (approximately 16 x 10 cm), 240 pp., full old dark brown calf leather, spine with raised bands adorned with compartments bearing floral and geometric motifs, blind-stamped, upper edge marked with the lettered sign "Fg" at the foot.
Isolated volume corresponding to Tome VII (containing the Prophets and the hagiographic books, with Daniel, Haggai, Jonah, etc.). Text entirely printed in ancient Greek with superb ornamental initials engraved in wood (depicting biblical or macabre scenes) and decorative typographic bands.
Presence of the famous printer's mark of Wolfgang Köpfel (latinized Cephalæus) depicting a serpent coiled in an eight on an altar and surmounted by an alert owl within a mandorla of radiant rays, accompanied by the abbreviated signature "Cephal." The text is framed by the reader's notice "Candido Lectori".
Rare humanist edition of the Septuagint, issued by the Strasbourg officier of Wolfgang Köpfel, a major disseminator of biblical and philological texts of the Reformation and Humanism.
Bindings worn and rubbed with leather losses at the back and at the corners, covers rubbed. Interior generally well preserved, laid paper solid, some specks and browning from the period, a fine authentic unrestored ensemble.
Rare copy.
[BIBLE IN GREEK - Old Testament]
[Divinae Scripturae, veteris novaeque omnia... / Vetus Testamentum iuxta Septuaginta] [Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel (Cephalæus), circa 1524-1526.
1 volume in-8 (approximately 16 x 10 cm), 240 pp., full old dark brown calf leather, spine with raised bands adorned with compartments bearing floral and geometric motifs, blind-stamped, upper edge marked with the lettered sign "Fg" at the foot.
Isolated volume corresponding to Tome VII (containing the Prophets and the hagiographic books, with Daniel, Haggai, Jonah, etc.). Text entirely printed in ancient Greek with superb ornamental initials engraved in wood (depicting biblical or macabre scenes) and decorative typographic bands.
Presence of the famous printer's mark of Wolfgang Köpfel (latinized Cephalæus) depicting a serpent coiled in an eight on an altar and surmounted by an alert owl within a mandorla of radiant rays, accompanied by the abbreviated signature "Cephal." The text is framed by the reader's notice "Candido Lectori".
Rare humanist edition of the Septuagint, issued by the Strasbourg officier of Wolfgang Köpfel, a major disseminator of biblical and philological texts of the Reformation and Humanism.
Bindings worn and rubbed with leather losses at the back and at the corners, covers rubbed. Interior generally well preserved, laid paper solid, some specks and browning from the period, a fine authentic unrestored ensemble.
Rare copy.
Details
Number of books
1
Book title
Wolfgang Köpfel (Cephalæus) - Biblia Greca
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1524
Height
16 cm
Width
10 cm
Language
Greek
Number of pages
240
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