Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection
6. Spreading the Word
6.8
La Bibbia. Translated by Giovanni Diodati. [Geneva: Johann Tornesius],
1607.
Large quarto. 1348 pages ([4], 847, [1]; 178, [1] blank
leaf; 314, [1] blank leaf), 10 × 6¾ inches. Roman and italic;
text in double columns with arguments, chapter headings and marginal notes,
and references on all sides. Large woodcut printer’s device of a man sowing
and Tornesius’ motto and anagram “son art en Dieu”; titles to the Apocrypha
and New Testament within ornamental borders; Apocryphal books not noted
in the table of contents. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled
wooden boards. § DM 5598.
fol. bBb1r
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of Theology, Southern Methodist University.