Biblia, siriech knigi sviashchennago pisaniia vetkhago i novago zavieta

by: Luiken, Caspar, 1672-1708, artist; Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, artist; Weigel, Christopher, fl. 1712, engraver

Publication date: 1751

Publisher: [Saint Petersberg : s.n.]

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: Church Slavic.

Volume: v.1

This is the first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible" published during the reign of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1761) and represents the so-called "corrected text" of the first edition of the Bible issued in Slavonic characters by Ivan Fedorov in Ostrog, (Volhynia) in the year 1581. See Darlowe and Moule

Engraved title-page, port. of the Empress and vignettes made in Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersberg, in 1751

MB (R-B) copy is extra illustrated with about 400 copper engravings from the Historiae Celebriores Veteris et Novi Testamenti ... a Christopher Weigel. Nuremberg, 1712. Plates signed by artists Caspar and Jan Luyken and engraved by C. Weigel

Darlowe & Moule