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Heptateuchus, liber Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi
Anglo-Saxonice. Historiae Judith fragmentum; Dano-Saxonice. Edidit nunc primum ex MSS codicibus Edwardus Thwaites, è Collegio Reginae
Old Testament. Selections. Anglo-Saxon. 1698
8 unnumbered pages, 168, 32 pages, plate : illustrations (engraving) ; octavo.
The Heptateuch and Job were translated by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.
The plate is signed: M Burghers delin. et sculp. Univ. Oxon.
"Evangelium Nicodemi, Anglo-Saxonice" (caption title) has separate pagination; register is continuous.
This edition is know to exist in at least two issues: in issue 1, the verso of title page has the imprimatur of Joh. Meare, Dec. 27, 1697; in issue 2 the verso of title page is blank.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is issue one.
Engraved frontispiece, head-pieces and historiated initials.
"This book was printed using the Anglo-Saxon type commissioned by the renowned philologist Franciscus Junius" -- bookseller's description.