The small edition is the Testamenti Novi, printed and published in Lyon by the firm of Sebastian Gryphius in 1564, the year of Shakespeare's birth. This edition offers numerous illustrations representing the stories and themes of the New Testament. The illustrations in this small edition are highly detailed, but difficult to see with the naked eye. Once this edition is scanned and made into high-resolution images the reader may expand these images to experience and study in the art of these exquisite engravings and minute details of how New Testament writing is presented visually.
Testamenti Novi editio vulgate (Bible with Pauline epistles)
Lyon: Héritiers Sébastien Gryphe, 1564.
16mo. 496, 343 (xvii) pp. (Signature: a-z8, A-H8, aa-xx8, yy4, zz8; gatherings x and y transposed). Roman and Italic letter. Gryphius’ griffin device on little page, 96 metal-cuts, some repeated, historiated woodcut initials, woodcut headpieces, early autograph, illegible at foot of title page, C20th armorial bookplate on pastedown, C18th library stamps on verso of title page. Light age yellowing, title page fractionally dusty, the marginal mark or spot. A very good copy in contemporary vellum over thin boards, yapp edges remains on pigskin ties, covers bordered with a double blind rule, spine blind ruled in compartments. [USTC 15305; Brun, 270p. (1542 ed.); Darlow & Moule vol. II pt. 2, 6125 (1542 ed. With the New Testament in a 1544 issue); Mortimer French I, 90 (1560 ed.)] (WABP-41055)
Healing and miracles by Jesus (p. 29)
Jesus's entry into Jerusalem (p. 76)
Crucifixion (p. 110)
Resurrection of Jesus (p. 114)