Biblia latina, Venice, Giunta, 1511, old calf

Bible. Latin

[Biblia cum concordantiis Veteris et Novi Testamenti & sacrorum canonum, edited by Alberto da Castello]. (Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 28 May 1511)

4to (213 x 160mm.), woodcut illustrations (some full-page) and initials, some printing in red (the Eusebian canon tables within red frames), without final blank leaf, later calf, lacking title-page, occasional light damp-staining, a few small marginal tears, b9 repaired at foot, binding scraped

This is one of many works edited by Alberto da Castello, a Dominican from SS. Giovanni e Paolo (there are numerous other works of his in this sale). It is a reprint of the 1506 Giunta Bible with Alberto's revision of the Vulgate along with concordances, text variants in the margins and the Eusebian canon tables, and revised again by Alberto for this 1511 printing.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 5782; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 57; Sander 999; not in Darlow & Moule; Daniela Fattori, "Frate Alberto da Castello, un domenicano in tipografia", La Bibliofilia 109 (2007), pp.143-168

PROVENANCE:

Ad usum fratris Marii de Calasio et suorumque amicorum, inscription on leaf 3/1

Mario di Calasio (1550-1620) was Minorite friar from Calascio in Abruzzo, a renowned Hebrew scholar, the author of a Hebrew grammar and a concordance of the Hebrew Bible.