Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis presbyteri Divina bibliotheca antehac inedita complectens translationes latinas Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, cùm ex hebræis, tum è græcis fontibus derivatas; innumera quoque scholia marginalia antiquissimi Hebræi cujusdam scriptoris anonymi, hebræas voces pressiùs exprimentis. Prodit è vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus Gallicanis, Vaticanis, &c. Studio et labore monachorum ordinis S. Benedicti è congregatione S. Mauris. Tomus primus [-quintus]
Parisiis: apud Ludovicum Roulland, viâ Jacobæâ, sub signo sancti Ludovici, 1693-1706. Folio (leaf 41.0 cm), 5 volumes, engraved frontispiece after Hallé; title page printed in red and black with engraved printer's vignette; headpieces (including a portrait of Innocent XII) and decorated initials wood-engraved by S. Thomassin; text in double column; b3 in volume I, 3Q3 in volume II, D3, 3B3, 5K3, and 5N1 in volume II, t4 in volume IV, and 2G3 in volume V with temoines; the z gathering in volume I misbound after the v gathering, but the book is complete; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spines in 7 compartments, morocco labels in 2; extremities and labels rubbed, upper joint of volume I cracked (cords holding), other joints starting; overall, a clean, sound set. Edited by Jean Martianay and Antoine Pouget. Volume 1 consists of Jerome's Vulgate translation of the Bible. "St. Jerome (ca. 347-419/420) was a biblical translator and monastic leader, traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and about 389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His numerous biblical, ascetical, monastic, and theological works profoundly influenced the early Middle Ages. He is known particularly for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, and has been designated a doctor of the church, a title granted to saints in the Roman Catholic Church whose writings and teachings are of particular importance" (Britannica). Brunet; III, 156;. Item #73730
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