BIBLES -- BIBLIA LATINA -- TESTAMENTI VETERIS Biblia sacra sive libri canonici, priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a deo traditi, Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti brevibusque scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco Junio: accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi, Latine redditi & notis quibusdam aucti a Francisco Junio (…), quibus etiam adjunximus Novi Testamenti libros ex sermone syriaco ab eodem Tremellio in Latinum conversos. Lond., Excudebat H. Middletonus. 1579-80. 6 parts in 1 vol. (14), (2 blank), 219, (1 blank); 299, (1 blank); 251, (1 blank); 390, (2 blank); 192; (4), 191, (1 blank) pp. W. 6 woodcut printer's devices, text printed in double columns, sev. woodcut initials and head- & tailpieces. 4°. Mod. vellum w. blue edges. (Margin cut, num. annot. in an old hand on last blank, faintly stained at the end, a bit browned in places).
First complete Latin Bible printed in England. - This edition contains the OT translated from the Hebrew by I. Tremellius and Francis Junius and the Apocrypha translated from the Greek by Junius alone, to which is added Tremellius's translation of the NT made from the Syriac. The general title and the NT title are dated 1580, the remaining titles are dated 1579. - Darlow & Moule 6166; Heitzmann, Lat. Bibeldr., D878a.€ 400