Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pont. Max. 1669
Densely illustrated 17th century quarto Bible in Latin. With two title pages.
Manuscript title page reads: Biblia Sacra Vulgata Editionis Secundum Editionem Antonii Vitre Venetiis.
Engraved facsimile title page reads: Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pont. Max. iussu recognita atque edita. Venetiis Apud Nicolaum Pezzana MDCLXIX.
Full brown leather over wood boards with intact clasts and hasps. Respined at some point with earlier spine laid down. Raised bands and brown leather title label on spine. Shelf wear. Red page edges. Front hinge cracking; rear hinge solid. Joints solid. Illegible early ink writing on ffep. Pencil annotations on rear paste down. Later flyleaf, manuscript drawn title page, and facsimile engraved title page. Index leaves at rear trimmed in close to text. Some unobtrusive worming at rear. Scattered small stains, but mostly clear and bright. Stain in vignette on 329. Binding tight, though cracked, but holding, between Yy1 and Yy2 (Matthew ch 1). O3 given as N3. 3 and 4 Esdras follow Apocalypse. Hundreds of illustrations, particularly dense in Pentateuch, Gospels, and Apocalypse.
Ffep, later blank, later manuscript title, later facsimile title, +2-4, ++8, A – Ppp8, Qqq4, rfep.
Ffep, later blank, later manuscript title, later facsimile title [22] 964 [40] rfep. It’s actually 944 pages but numbers 964 due to printing errors in the page numbers.
If the manuscript title is to be believed, this is the second edition of the 1666 edition by Antoni Vitre.