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(BIBLE IN GREEK AND LATIN.) Codex Theodori Bezae . . . evangelia et apostolorum acta complectens quadratis literis Graeco-Latinus. Greek text and Latin translation printed in uncial type on facing pages. [2], xxviii, [4], 854 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, 488x338 mm, late 19th-/20th-century buckram with white ink shelf number on spines; titles browned with unobtrusive perforated stamp in lower margin, ink accession number in lower margin of next leaf in each volume, contents otherwise immaculate. full-margined set. Cambridge, 1793
first edition of a type facsimile of the 5th- or 6th-century diglot New Testament manuscript "presented by Théodore de Bèze to the University of Cambridge in 1581. He had obtained it after the sack of the monastery of St. Irenaeus at Lyons in 1562, and used it himself to some extent in his own editions"--Darlow & Moule 4773.
