Novum testamentum graecum ...

Coloniae Allobrogum (i.e., Geneva) : Pierre de la Rovière, 1611. 16mo (13 cm); 2 volumes in one. 342, 239, [1] leaves. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek with interlinear Latin translation and commentary. Text and commentary within ruled borders. Elaborately gilt-tooled morocco armorial binding of l'abbé Genesse (i.e., of Genoa), with arms within a central lozenge enclosed in a motto and filigreed in all corners and within ruled borders on both boards; spine with filigreed central panel. Edges gilt. Pages generally toned with scattered foxing; light water stain on covers and in first 100 leaves. Binding reference: Tausin, "Dictionnaire des devises ecclésiastiques", 165.

Arias Montano, librarian of El Escorial, was one of the principal editors of the great polyglot edition of the bible issued by the Plantin Press in 1571. (He was denounced to the Inquisition for liberality.) This edition of the Greek New Testament with Arias's extensive commentary is enclosed in an elaborate French binding, flat back, extensively tooled, bearing the arms of the Abbé Genesse with his motto, "Quae est expectatio mea, nonne dominus" (Psalm 38:8, What is my hope? Is it not the lord?).