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Vetus testamentum multiplici lingua nunc primoimpressum. Et imprimis Pentateuchus Hebraico Greco atque Chaldaicoidiomate. Adiuncta unicuique sua latina interpretatione (Secunda pars veteris testamenti; Tertia pars beteris testamenti; Quarta pars veteris testamenti; novum testamentum grece & latine; Vocabularium hebraicum atque chaldaicum), vols 1-5 (of 6), [Alcala de Henares, Arnao Guillen de Brocar, 1514-1517], woodcut title printed in red and black to each vol. (except volume 5 printed in black only), large and small woodcut initials, including several crible, woodcut printer's devices at end of volumes 4 & 5, first vol. with title restrengthened to fore-margin and waterstaining to fore-margins of final few leaves, fifth vol. with title soiled and lower blank margin repaired, and waterstaining to fore-margins of final few leaves, occ. dust-soiling elsewhere, later marbled endpapers, contemporary full calf, with blind-tooled decorative roll work to outer border, blind-decorated double border enclosing central blind-tooled lozenge to each cover, incorporating motifs of a portcullis, Tudor rose, initials HR, fleur-de-lys and King's head or jester, some evidence of early ownership from a chained library (two vols. with small hole to upper outer corner of upper corner where the chain would have been attached), board edges and corners neatly repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, folio
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