This Bible is one of the most beautiful and impressive ever published in the publishing house. Due to its size and the many illustrations by top artists, the price tag is high.
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Biblia sacra, C.Plantin, 1583
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In the Plantinian printing industry, the presses serve the Catholic faith with countless editions of the Bible and books for worship.
The 36-line Bible is a monument in the history of printing. The Augustinian monastery of Nuremberg donated this copy in 1514 to its new sister institution in Antwerp. When that monastery was closed in 1522 because of Lutheran sympathies, the Bible was put on the market. Nobody knows how it then ended up in Plantin’s library.
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