Facsim. volumes in Latin (Vulgate version); commentary in Italian.
Presented to the Library of Congress on the occasion of its Bicentennial by the Embassy of Italy.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes (in v. 2 of the commentary)
Full-color facsimile, imitating to the maximum the physical makeup of the original created 1455-1461 for Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
Title and imprint from colophon printed on final flyleaves of the facsim. volumes.
Title pages of the commentary volumes, a teamwork of several authors, read "La Bibbia di Borso d'Este : commentario al codice"; both printed and copyrighted by F.C. Panini in 1997.
Art-historical studies (by Federica Toniolo) in the commentary volumes identify at least 11 fifteenth-century artists who took part in the Bible's decoration (Taddeo Crivelli and others); ms. text all by the Milanese calligrapher Pietro Paolo Marone.
"La presente edizione in facsimile è stata realizzata dalla Franco Cosimo Panini Editore di Modena in collaborazione con l'Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani ... L'opera, indivisibile, comprende due volumi di facsimile e due volumi di commentario."
Vol. 1 of the facsimile contains the historical (except Maccabees) and the sapiental books; v. 2, the prophets, the Maccabees, and the New Testament; included are the traditional prologues (by Jerome and/or others), and, at end of v. 2, the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.
The two facsimile volumes are issued in drop-down boxes 44 x 35.5 cm; commentary volumes in one case.
Edition limited to 750 copies.
LC has copy no. 145.