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SUPPRESSED BY THE INQUISITION (BIBLE IN LATIN.) Biblia sacra. [12], 513, [32] leaves, including colophon leaf. 4to, old calf gilt, varnished; marginal soiling and dampstaining, single tiny wormhole through first quarter of volume not impairing legibility, some sidenotes cropped, title heavily soiled with old scored inscription and restoration in blank lower outer corner, later manuscript table of contents on blank verso of +8v, ink blots on 2D3-4. Bookplate and embossed stamp of Alfonso Cassuto. Salamanca: Andreas à Portonariis, 1555
first attempt to publish the vatable bible in spain, suppressed by the inquisition. The 1545 Vulgate printed by Robert Estienne in Paris became known as the Vatable Bible for its scholia purportedly based on notes taken from lectures by the Royal Professor of Hebrew François Vatable, but probably composed at least in part by Estienne himself. The perceived reform tendency of the notes and the inclusion of an alternate Latin translation prepared by protestant scholars in Zurich led to the Bible's proscription by the Paris Faculty of Theology. The 1555 Salamanca edition--with expurgated notes, minus the Zurich version, and falsely citing the Dominican theologian Domingo de Soto as editor on the title page--was placed on the first Spanish index of prohibited books in 1559. A revised edition of the Vatable Bible was published in Salamanca under the auspices of the Inquisition in 1584-86. Barthélemy, Critique Textuelle de l'Ancien Testament II, 34-43; Reusch, page 217. This is apparently one of only four known copies: Ruiz Fidalgo 442 locates only those at the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon and the Public Library in Porto, and Wilkinson 1851 locates another at the Public Library in Évora. This edition not in NUC, OCLC, CCPBE, Palau, or Darlow & Moule.
