Property from the Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell RyrieBIBLE IN LATINBible in Latin. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476 Chancery folio (293 × 190 mm). Collation: a-z & 'con rum' A-H10 (Old Testament, a1 and H10 blanks); I-L10 M12 N-P10 Q12 (New Testament, Q12v colophon: 'Biblia impressa Venetijs opera atque impensa Nicolai Ienson Gallici. M.cccc.lxxvj.'); R-T10 U-X8 (Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum, X8r quire register, verso blank): 467 of 470 leaves, lacking the blank leaves a1 and H10, and the final leaf, with quire register. 2 columns, 52 lines and headline, initial spaces (Italian rubrication, red and blue). Leaf C10 (Ezekiel ch. 38) with a triangular section removed at outer margin, with text loss. Scattered early lection notes in pale brown ink, thus at Apocalypse ch. 4: “In Refectorio.” Eighteenth-century red sheep gilt, spine richly gilt, marbled endleaves; scratches and abrasions on both covers. Jenson’s first printing of the Vulgate Bible. His copy text was the 1475 Venice edition of Franciscus Renner (Goff B-541), and so included all the additional prologues first appearing in that edition, as well as the Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, a Biblical apparatus that became a near-standard Vulgate supplement in thirteenth-century Paris Bibles. LITERATURE:Formatting the Word of God 11.2; Goff B-547; GW 4222; BMC V 176 (IB.16965); BSB-Ink B-424; Bod-inc B-256 PROVENANCE:Charles-Pierre-Joseph Le Candèle, Baron de Gyseghem (engraved bookplate) — Duke of Arenberg, Schloss Nordkirchen (shelf-mark)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell RyrieBIBLE IN LATINBible in Latin. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476 Chancery folio (293 × 190 mm). Collation: a-z & 'con rum' A-H10 (Old Testament, a1 and H10 blanks); I-L10 M12 N-P10 Q12 (New Testament, Q12v colophon: 'Biblia impressa Venetijs opera atque impensa Nicolai Ienson Gallici. M.cccc.lxxvj.'); R-T10 U-X8 (Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum, X8r quire register, verso blank): 467 of 470 leaves, lacking the blank leaves a1 and H10, and the final leaf, with quire register. 2 columns, 52 lines and headline, initial spaces (Italian rubrication, red and blue). Leaf C10 (Ezekiel ch. 38) with a triangular section removed at outer margin, with text loss. Scattered early lection notes in pale brown ink, thus at Apocalypse ch. 4: “In Refectorio.” Eighteenth-century red sheep gilt, spine richly gilt, marbled endleaves; scratches and abrasions on both covers. Jenson’s first printing of the Vulgate Bible. His copy text was the 1475 Venice edition of Franciscus Renner (Goff B-541), and so included all the additional prologues first appearing in that edition, as well as the Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, a Biblical apparatus that became a near-standard Vulgate supplement in thirteenth-century Paris Bibles. LITERATURE:Formatting the Word of God 11.2; Goff B-547; GW 4222; BMC V 176 (IB.16965); BSB-Ink B-424; Bod-inc B-256 PROVENANCE:Charles-Pierre-Joseph Le Candèle, Baron de Gyseghem (engraved bookplate) — Duke of Arenberg, Schloss Nordkirchen (shelf-mark)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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