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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 4613961, member: 14916&quot;]This is the latest addition to my collection. A so-called van Sichem Bible, after the illustrator. It was published by Pieter Jacobz Paets.</p><p><br /></p><p>This bible is a Lovain Bible translation (1548). Jan Moerentorff printed in 1599 the next catholic standard bible. This bible has the same text, but many more illustrations (woodcuts). To my opinion this bible is still in a 16th century fashion. Typical for it&#039;s age is the use of a roman letter and a black letter (gothic script).</p><p><br /></p><p>In total the bible has more than 1200(!) illustrations made by Christopher van Sichem, many of them after famous earlier illustrators like Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein and Hubert Holtzius. Almost every woodcut is signed with the CVS mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really puzzles me why this book was published in the Protestant part of the Low Countries at that moment. It would make much more sense if the book was published in the Catholic south (in Antwerpen or Brussels for example). The book is also attributed to the bishop of Antwerpen.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a catholic bible it is very fancy. Illustrated Bibles were much more common in the Protestant tradition. I think this is the most beautiful catholic bible printed in the Low countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book contains two parts, the Old (printed in 1657) and the New Testament (1646) and is bound in calf with copper clasps. The size is folio, so it is a big book.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410811[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The frontispiece</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410788[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The start: Genesis</p><p>[ATTACH=full]410797[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410807[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410793[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410818[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410805[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The start of the New Testament</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410808[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410814[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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