Statenbijbel - Biblia, Dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture - [1639]

Biblia, Dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Nu eerst, door last der Hoogh-Mog: Heeren Staten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, en volgens het Besluyt van de Synode Nationael, gehouden tot Dordrecht, inde Jaeren 1618. ende 1619. Uyt de Oorspronckelijcke talen in onse Neder-landtsche tale getrouwelijck over-geset. Met nieuwe bij-gevoegde Verklaringen op de duystere plaetsen, aenteeckeningen vande ghelijck-luydende Texten, ende nieuwe Registers over beyde de Testamenten.
Leyden, Paulus Aertsz. van Ravensteyn, voor Weduwe en Erven Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw [1639]

Title page+(23)+288+27+(2)+138+(2)+166+(15)+76 folios; 16 plates outside the text (5 by Simon Fokke, 4 by Pieter Tanjé & 7 by Jacob Folkema)

BEAUTIFUL old leather binding (41 × 27 cm, blind stamped, corners and clasps in copper, spine damaged), title page slightly soiled (spots), minor foxing, marginal moisture stains; signature under probation with date 1639 (B. Langenost / Langenaken?)

The Bible translation, authorised by the States General, was mostly printed in 1636 and published in 1637.
Apart from the title page (with a view of Leiden), this edition of the Statenbijbel did not have any prints, because the Synod of Dort did not consider it necessary for the Statenbijbel to be illustrated, in view of the development of the people. In this copy, however, 16 prints were later included, taken from Ysbrand van Hamelsveld, “De gewigtigste geschiedenissen des Bybels, afgebeeld in twee honderd twee en vijftig printverbeeldingen” (Amsterdam etc 1791).