Bible. Latin. Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti quinti pont. max. iussu recognita atque edita. Rome: Stamperia Apostolica Vaticana, 1593

Second edition, in quarto format, of the Clementine Bible. This edition in handier size corre꧂cted typographical errors of the 1592 edition, and added at the end various trad♚itional apparatuses: the book prologues of Jerome and others; an index of Christian testimonies (first added to Bibles by Robert Estienne), an index of Biblical names, and a topical index.

For a very simi🌠lar binding of the same design and wit✨h the same tools, see British Library, Davis Gift 360, previously attributed to the "Rospigliosi" [i.e. Andreoli] bindery but now considered to be by Baldassarre Soresini, whose workshop preceded that of the Andreoli.

Super-Median 4to (248 x 175 mm). Roman type, double column, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ [2]*⁶ A-Z⁸ AA-ZZ⁸ AAA- YYY⁸ a¹⁰ +⁸ ++¹⁰ (last leaf blank). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials and tailpieces, quire [2]*⁶ bound after quire a, missing verse added in manuscript at foot of p.735, red numbers and letters stamped in the margins. (Without final blank leaf, some staining and browni🦋ng, some red annotations washed.)

binding: Seventeenth-century Roman red morocco gilt (253 x 185 mm), by the Soresini bindery, covers with leafy swirls creating an outer border with curved sections at top and bottom of central section, and with small stamp of a standing angel, diamond-shaped centerpiece of more leafy swirls with a small stamp of the Virgin and Child in center, lettered S. GIAC^o DELLA CERTOSA DI CAPRI across both covers, small stamp of St James on lower cover, flat spine gilt, plain edges. (Binding somewhat ꦺrubbed, joints repaired, some worming in binding.)

provenance: Charterhouse of San Giacomo on Capri (name on binding). acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, 2001. references: Adams B1102; Edit16 5807; Renouard 250/1