MONTANUS Arias ( editor ) - Bible Polyglot - New Testament in Greek and Latin :
Reference : 51545
" Antverpiae ( Antwerpen ), Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1583, in-8°, title + (1)(bl) + 371 pp + (1)nn pp (censor) + (9) nn pp + (1)(bl), complete, collation identical with Voet n° 648. Bound in old supple vellum, with traces of ties, manuscript title on smooth spine. serious tear of ca. 5 cm in the lower end of the spine affecting the lower end of the front cover, with some loss of material, title page a bit dustsoiled and thumbed, with usual small stains and fingermarks, still an acceptable, rather good copy. With several manuscript ex-libris and one 19th c. library stamp of the Redemptorists of Antwerp. The oldest manuscript ex-libris ( dated 1594), so presumably of the first owner reads '' Emptus Cortraci, dijvinta artibus, vigilia S.. Joannis Baptiste''. Other names: '' Seigneur de la Buisière '' ; ''D. Caroli Ougstlandt '' ; ''Joannis Colaert, 27 sept. 1644 ''. Greek text of the New Testament with interlinear Latin translation. In the same type-composition as the folio-edition of 1584: the forms of the folio (with the text on two colums) were printed first and then rearranged (on one column) for this in-8° edition. (see Voet n° 648).."