n_data. Cu_m_
concorda_n_tijs simul et argume_n_tis: cu_m_q_ue_ iuris canoni_c_i
allegationib_us_ passim adnotatis. Insup_er_ i_n_ calce eiusde_m_ annexe
su_n_t no_m_i_nu_m Hebraico_rum_, Chaldeo_rum_, atq_ue_ Greco_rum_
interp_re_tatio_n_es. Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et
sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_. [Printer's device
(shield bearing the initials T.K. suspended from a tree and supported by
two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and
the device framed in a woodcut border]. _Fol. 562^a_, COLOPHON:
Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola_n_de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis
viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et
venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo
nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].

Octavo. Sign. A^8, B^4, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y^8, Z^6, aaa-eee^8. 602
leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing
title, _Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores
exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium_. Gabriel Bruno's
_Tabula alphabetica historiarum_; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30
unnumbered leaves _Index rerum et sententiarum_; 40 unnumbered
leaves _Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum_, etc. Very small
gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to
eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of
Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2,
149.

The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which
appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's
edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as
regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Graecis" editions, 1478 ff.,
and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin
accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, _Interpretationes
nominum Hebraicorum_, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names,
appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and
was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515.
In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form
appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due
acknowledgment to Cardinal Ximenes. The _Index rerum et sententiarum_,
however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it
had been also an