1660 Erasmus Paraphrasis New Testament Dutch Folio Thomas Fonteyn
$1,500.00
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Seventeenth-century religious scholarship and Dutch printing: this 1660 Amsterdam edition of Desiderius Erasmus’s Paraphrasis, ofte Uytklaeringh over ’t Nieuwe Testament onses Heeren Jesu Christi was translated from Latin by Ellert de Veer and printed by Thomas Fonteyn. The substantial folio features an engraved portrait of Erasmus and two-column text. It offers collectors a direct encounter with how one of the Renaissance’s leading scholars explained the New Testament for Dutch readers.
Fair condition. The vellum-covered binding is worn and soiled, and the spine is failing: the covering is split and lifting, with frayed ends and exposed binding material. Handle and open the book carefully. Page edges are darkened; the photographed interior pages show age toning and scattered spotting, with text remaining legible. An “Ex-Libris J. J. Witteveen” stamp appears on a front leaf. The spine has a handwritten “1522”; the printed title page and the auction identification date this Dutch edition to 1660. Please examine all photographs, particularly the spine.
SKU V/3
1660 Erasmus Paraphrasis New Testament Dutch Folio Thomas Fonteyn
$1,500.00
Fair condition. The vellum-covered binding is worn and soiled, and the spine is failing: the covering is split and lifting, with frayed ends and exposed binding material. Handle and open the book carefully. Page edges are darkened; the photographed interior pages show age toning and scattered spotting, with text remaining legible. An “Ex-Libris J. J. Witteveen” stamp appears on a front leaf. The spine has a handwritten “1522”; the printed title page and the auction identification date this Dutch edition to 1660. Please examine all photographs, particularly the spine.
SKU V/3