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This large illustrated 24x35.5cm page was printed in Venice, Italy, by the House of Giunta in 1606.

It is an original leaf from Biblia Sacra, vulgate editionis Sixti Quinti Pont, Max. Iussu… (The Holy Bible, in Latin, Jerome’s Vulgate Translation, as approved by Pope Sixtus V).

Pope Sixtus V ordered a revision of the biblical text in 1589, in part to counter the rising power of emergent Protestantism and to assert the preeminence of the Vatican’s temporal authority in Catholic Spain and France.

The commission to print this work was given to the highly regarded printing house of the Giunta family.

Produced on a movable-type press, each leaf (page) is a unique piece of ancient artwork which was hand printed then bound together by hand with other pages into whole books.

Because they were printed on 100% rag cotton or linen sheet - not wood-pulp paper like today’s books - they are in excellent condition after hundreds of years and are still strong, durable and safe to handle.

Most paper items from the 1500s to the mid-1880s are in much better condition than those from later eras.

This page is filed in a free conservation-grade folder.

All old leafs offered for sale by Konzeptz are guaranteed original and we offer a full refund if proven otherwise. They have been authenticated as genuine by an independent overseas expert who has been specialising in this field for more than 40 years.

No complete book was destroyed to obtain this page. Following the principles of the antiquarian book trade, it was rescued from a book which was incomplete or otherwise defective - perhaps partly burned, water damaged or damp or mouldy, or in such a battered condition repair was impractical.

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