Shelfmark
Gi.1.07 - Gi.1.08
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. O.T. Spanish (Old Spanish). 1918.
Title
Bible (Old Testament) translated from the Hebrew into Castilian by Rabbi Moses Arragel of Guadalfajara (1422-1433?) and published by the Duke of Berwick and Alba.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Madrid : Privately printed for presentation to the members of The Roxburghe Club, MCMXVIII - MCMXXI [1918-1921]
Physical description
2 v. : ill., plates, col. facsims ; 43 cm.
Note
Vol. I was completed October, 1921, and vol. II, December, 1921, by the "Imprenta artística," Madrid. cf. Colophons.
Note
Printed from the original manuscript, transcribed and edited by Antonio Paz y Melia and his son, Juliàn Paz. The numerous glosses of the ms. are printed at the end of each book, and the illustrations on separate leaves, not in the text, as in the ms.
Note
Issued also with Spanish t.p., 1920-22.
Provenance
Plain label of Eton College Library, with red initials, on front pastedowns.
Provenance
Ms. note in pencil on ECL label "James Bequest 2 vols" item 179.
Binding
20th-century light brown sheepskin on ?millboards. Covers decorated with elaborate blind tools to form entwined motifs. Spine round, decorated with same blind tools as covers; blind titling ("Biblia 1422-1433 - [I/II] -"). Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers of undecorated paper; four flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Bible. O.T. Illustrations.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts Spain.
Subject
Miniature painting Spain.
Subject
Manuscripts, Spanish Facsimiles.
Added entry--name
Arragel, Mosé, active 1422 - 1433 translator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Alba, Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James y Falcó, 1878 - 1953 duque de publisher.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Spain Madrid.
Language code
spa heb
Identifier
B51118