Biblia sacra. Vulgatae editionis Sixti V. Clementis VIII Pont. Max. auctoritate recognita. Editio nova, notis chronologicis, historicis et geographicis illustrata.

Paris (Parisiis), Excudebat Antonius Vitré, Apud Antonium Dezallier, 1691. 4to. 2 parts in 1: (VIII),XX,624; 512,32,(7),(1 blank);36,38,(1 printer's mark),(1 blank) p. Calf 28 cm (Ref: Brunet 1,879; Ebert 2321) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Dark red lettering label. Woodcut printer's device on both titles and on the recto side of the last leaf, depicting Hercules and his club, motto: 'Virtus non territa monstris'. Printed in 2 columns. Includes also: 'Index testimoniorum', 'Nominum interpretatio', A. Lubin's 'Tabula sacra geographica', and a 'Tabula chronologica') (Condition: Binding scuffed. Head & tail of the spine chafed. Back rubbed. Small tear in the head of the spine. Corners bumped. Upper board very scratched. Endpapers and title dustsoiled. Tiny hole in the first title at the gutter. Slightly dampstained at the edge of the lower margin) (Note: This revised edition of the Latin Bible, the so-called Vulgate, of 1691 is a reissue of the Parisian Bible edition in folio format that Vitré published previously in 1652. He repeated it in 1662, and in 1666 he brought a quarto edition on the market. In the copies of that quarto edition sold after 1670 were added 36 pages with 'Tabulae Geographicae', compiled by the King's geographer Auguste Lubin (1624-1695). These 'tabulae' are repeated in this edition of 1691. § For over a thousand years, from ca 400 till 1550 A.D., the Vulgate was regarded as the only definitive and valid Bible edition in the Latin West. 'Vulgate', is short for 'versio vulgata', meaning the 'commonly-used Latin translation'. That original translation was the work of the Church father Hieronymus of Stridon, or Saint Jerome, who in 382 A.D. was commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the collection of biblical texts in Latin then in use by the Church in the West. The Catholic Church affirmed after the Protestant Reformation the Vulgate as its official Latin Bible at the oecumenical Council of Trent, that met between 1545 and 1563 in the Italian city Trento. Several popes established committees during this Council to prepare an authorative Bible edition, in opposition to the Protestant Bible editions. In 1592 Pope Clement VIII authorised the so-called Sixto-Clementine Vulgate. This version was the official Bible of the Catholic Church until 2001, when the 'Nova Vulgata' was issued. (Source Vulgate Wikipedia) (Provenance: name on the front flyleaf, probably: 'Induran') (Collation: pi4, *-2*4, 3*2; A-4I4; A-3S4; a4, e4, i4, o4, u4 (leaf u4 verso blank); A-D4, E2; +-5+4 (printer's mark also on leaf 5+4 recto; leaf 5+4 verso blank)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)