PIOUS AND LEARNED
ANNOTATIONS
UPON
THE HOLY BIBLE,
PLAINLY EXPOUNDING
THE MOST DIFFICULT PLACES THEREOF
BY THAT GODLY AND FAMOUS DIVINE,
MR. JOHN DIODATI,
LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN GENEVA.
THE THIRD EDITION.
CORRECTED AND MUCH AUGMENTED, WITH ADDITIONALL NOTES OF THE SAME AUTHOR THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORK.
AND
THE ANALYSIS UPON EACH SEVERALL BOOK OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, SETTING DOWN THE CHIEFE HEADS CONTAIN’D THEREIN, BEING VERY MUCH ENLARGED, IS NOW FULLY COMPLEATED IN THIS THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY JAMES FLESHER FOR NICHOLAS FUSSELL,
1651.
Above is a reconstruction of the title page.
Title page lacking, edition determined by frontispiece and pagination (see pictures below).
First published in 1607, in Latin: Annotationes in Biblia. The English translation was published in 1643. It and the second English edition of 1648 are paginated; the 1651 edition is unpaginated.
Diodati portrait:
Written at top is, The Portraicture of the Reverend Mr. John Diodati, Minister of Gods Word in Geneva, aetatis 70 Anno 1647
Bottom left corner, inside frame, W. Hollar, fecit. 1643
CONTENTS:
The Old Testament
The New Testament
(Each book of the Bible begins with an extensive several page Table, see example of two pages below.)
BIOGRAPHY:
Giovanni Diodati (1576-1649), Swiss Protestant theologian, preacher, professor, translator, writer, reformer, Calvinist, succeeded Beza, translated Bible to Italian and French, wrote Annotationes in Biblia.
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), Prague engraver, etcher, cartographer, trained in Merian’s Frankfurt workshop, moved to England, became known for portraits and views of London before the Great Fire of 1666.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
11 ½” x 7 ½” x 2 ½”
5 lbs 13 ounces
1,102 pages
This edition usually listed with 1,110 pages. The “A” register and 2A-4 are lacking, or a total of five leaves. The first four are the title, preliminary remarks and first pages of the Table for Genesis. The last leaf, 2A-4, is from the Table for Matthew.
Collated register:
B-I, K-U, X-Z, A2-I2, K2-U2, X2-Z2, A3-I3, K3-U3 (block split M3-4 & N3-1), X3-Z3, A4-I4, K4-M4-1, (New Testament) 2A-3 (block split) 2A-1 & 2A-2 (loose but connected; 2A-4 lacking) 2B-2I, 2K-2T, 2V, 2X-2Z, 2A2-2I2, 2K2-2O2, 2A3-2I3, 2K3-2U3, 2X3-2Y3-3
Text is continuous despite register, except where 2A-3 is out of place and 2A-4 is lacking.
Full calf with boards that are detached, scuffed and chipped at edges; spine has five raised bands. Backstrip is chipped, with two separating midline cracks (see register collation above for locations).
Front paste-down bookplates: 1. Ex Bibliotheca Aulae Hrypensis Oxonii, 2. Midland Clergy College, Rev. Benjamin Ruck-Keene. Front free endpaper and frontispiece are detached together.
First two leaves after second crack held at tail band only. Last two text leaves and back free endpaper are detached together with back board. Detached leaves are chipped at edges.
Text block binding fully separated in two places. No loose or missing pages other than noted; occasional edge creases, chips and small tears. Leaves have some age toning at edges, little foxing; no fading or offset.
This book is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne. He has been an antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.
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