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(BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia sancta ex Santis Pagnini tralatione. Edited by Michael Servetus. [6], 267 [i. e., 269], [39] leaves. Folio, 329x237 mm, old vellum boards, worn, lacking backstrip; varying browning and foxing, dampstain in lower margin of opening leaves, wormholes through title and next few leaves affecting a few letters on *2v. Lyon: (Gaspar Trechsel for) Hugues de la Porte, 1542
first servetus edition of the Latin version by Sanctes Pagninus, the first of the early modern era translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek. This edition was placed on the Index for the allegedly heretical marginal commentary by the theologian and physician Servetus (1511-53), who was ultimately burned at the stake for his anti-Trinitarian views. Darlow & Moule 6120; Fulton & Stanton 26.
