The Naples Bible is the second printed Old Testament Bible in

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. The first complete printed Hebrew Bible, by a single publisher, and without commentary, was published by the Soncino brothers in 1488, in Soncino. This was then followed by the Naples Bible in 1491–1493.David Noel Freedman, 2000 ''Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible'' page 1290Eerdmans p1290
/ref> It is not to be confused with a 14th-century illuminated manuscript Bible, in the Latin

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, also known as the " Illuminated Naples Bible".

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Digital reproduction
of the exemplar at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
Entry
in the

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ''Der Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke'' (English: The Union Catalogue of Incunabula) ( abbreviated as ''GW or GKW'') is an ongoing project of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and appears in conjunction with the print edition of the union catalogue ...

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