Ventes live - Lot 988
[Bible - Greek & Hebrew]
Daniel. Hoc est, Danielis prophetia & historia graecè.
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Description du lot
Dortmund, A. Sartorius, 1560
8vo: 75 pp. (dampstaining in lower margin and gutter, few pp. with marginalia in old Greek hand, dense annotations in Latin and Greek, with few sm. ill. on the rear endpapers).
19th-c. marbled boards. Good copy.
An unrecorded edition, and in fact unknown work. Daniel (meaning "God is my Judge") is the hero of the Biblical Book of Daniel. A noble Jewish youth of Jerusalem, he is taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and serves the king and his successors with loyalty and ability until the time of the Persian conqueror Cyrus, all the while remaining true to the God of Israel.
Ref. Not in OCLC, VD16, STC German.
Prov. Early 20th-c. Christian bookpl. on the front pastedown.