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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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BIBLE, IN LATIN [Biblia latina]... Quinta pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali & morali... Sup. libros Matthei, Marci, Luce, Johanis, [Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Petri, 1 December 1498]
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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BIBLE, IN LATIN
[Biblia latina]... Quinta pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali & morali... Sup. libros Matthei, Marci, Luce, Johanis, 243 leaves (of 244, lacking final leaf), 78 lines of commentary, gothic type, rubricated in red and blue, initials supplied in alternate red and blue, CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BLINDSTAMPED CALF over wooden boards, the covers panelled with a pair of intersecting triple fillets framing repeated impressions of rosette and fleur-de-lys tools, the centre panel dissected with diagonal fillets to a lattice design, undecorated spine, metal catches and clasps, plain vellum pastedowns, loss to head and foot of spine, some abrasions and scuffmarks to sides, preserved in black morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman [ISTC ib00609000; BMC III 791; Goff B609; GW4284], folio (340 x 230mm.), [Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Petri, 1 December 1498]
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The fifth part, including the Gospels, of Froben's finely printed glossed Bible edited by Sebastian Brant, in an unrestored contemporary English blindstamped calf binding. According to the old description by Patrick King this is most probably a London binding.
Provenance: Edward [?Pelham, name struck through], 28 Sept. ?1530/80, ink ownership inscription on title (above later initials "R.H."); 4-line verse ("Looke nott o Lord upon our soules...") in a sixteenth century hand in lower margin of final leaf; K.J. Hewett, bookplate at rear.





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