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Bible. New Testament. Greek.
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The New Testament (Greek)
Bible. New Testament. Greek.
Printer and Publisher: Robert Estienne (French, 1503?–1559)
Formerly attributed to: Geoffroy Tory (French, about 1480–1533)
Formerly attributed to: Geoffroy Tory (French, about 1480–1533)
1550
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Printed book, unillustrated
Dimensions
Overall: 32.8 x 23.2 x 4 cm (12 15/16 x 9 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number42.686
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1550
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet V, 737, Suppl. II, 742; Mortimer, French, 78
Description(Paris: Robert Estienne, 1550) Folio; 252 leaves; eighteenth-century gilt-stamped brown morocco (rebacked).
ProvenanceClaude de Boze (1680-1753; [his] Catalogue des livres du Cabinet de M. de Boze (Paris: 1753), p. 3, no. 9 "Novum Testamentum Graecè...Lutetiae: Rob. Stephanus, 1550. in-fol. M.C. [maroquin citron]"); Claret Delatourette (bookplate dated 1719); Theodore Napjen; Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter; Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984), with whom exchanged by the MFA, December 10, 1942.