BIBLIA LATINA. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 14 April 1478. Royal 2° (412 x 2879m). Collation: [1 12 2-22 10 23-24 6 25-36 10 37-38 6 39-41 10 42-43 8 44-48 10 49 6 ] (1/1r blank, 1/1v contents, 1/2r Genesis-Psalms, 25/1r Proverbs-Maccabees, 39/1r Gospels, 44/1r Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, 48/10v colophon, 49/1r treatise of Menardus, canon tables). 468 leaves. 51 lines and headline, double column, canon marginalia in the Gospels. Type: 3:110G (text), 4:160G (headline, chapter incipits). 3- to 13-line initial spaces. Major initial spaces left blank, others with alternating red, blue or magenta initials, red, blue or magenta paragraph marks, red capital strokes. (Small dampstain at extreme margin of first several leaves and at lower inner margin from quire 39, a few small wormholes in final 8 leaves.) Contemporary German blindstamped calf over unbevelled wooden boards, sides with central panel of foliate tool within lattice compartments, border of alternating rosettes and a different foliate tool (tools not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung ), two chased brass catchplates on upper cover, evidence of chain staple at top of upper board, endpapers from a printed edition of Persius with commentary of B. Fontius [57 lines of commentary, type 81R, bull's head watermark] (somewhat worn, particularly at spine, lacking clasps). Provenance : contents written in a contemporary hand on first blank recto, contemporary marginal annotations; library stamp removed from first leaf. A LARGE, FRESH COPY of Koberger's third Latin Bible. It reprints his earlier editions of 1477 and 1475, which in turn reprinted the Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1462. The tractate of Menardus was first printed in the Basel edition of Bernhard Richel, not after 1474; it is a summary of the books of the Bible with a guide to how to study them. The present copy preserves numerous deckle edges. HC *3068; BMC II, 415 (IC. 7168); BSB B-429; GW 4232; IDL 826; IGI 1655; Pellechet 2296; Goff B-557.
BIBLIA LATINA. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 14 April 1478. Royal 2° (412 x 2879m). Collation: [1 12 2-22 10 23-24 6 25-36 10 37-38 6 39-41 10 42-43 8 44-48 10 49 6 ] (1/1r blank, 1/1v contents, 1/2r Genesis-Psalms, 25/1r Proverbs-Maccabees, 39/1r Gospels, 44/1r Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, 48/10v colophon, 49/1r treatise of Menardus, canon tables). 468 leaves. 51 lines and headline, double column, canon marginalia in the Gospels. Type: 3:110G (text), 4:160G (headline, chapter incipits). 3- to 13-line initial spaces. Major initial spaces left blank, others with alternating red, blue or magenta initials, red, blue or magenta paragraph marks, red capital strokes. (Small dampstain at extreme margin of first several leaves and at lower inner margin from quire 39, a few small wormholes in final 8 leaves.) Contemporary German blindstamped calf over unbevelled wooden boards, sides with central panel of foliate tool within lattice compartments, border of alternating rosettes and a different foliate tool (tools not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung ), two chased brass catchplates on upper cover, evidence of chain staple at top of upper board, endpapers from a printed edition of Persius with commentary of B. Fontius [57 lines of commentary, type 81R, bull's head watermark] (somewhat worn, particularly at spine, lacking clasps). Provenance : contents written in a contemporary hand on first blank recto, contemporary marginal annotations; library stamp removed from first leaf. A LARGE, FRESH COPY of Koberger's third Latin Bible. It reprints his earlier editions of 1477 and 1475, which in turn reprinted the Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1462. The tractate of Menardus was first printed in the Basel edition of Bernhard Richel, not after 1474; it is a summary of the books of the Bible with a guide to how to study them. The present copy preserves numerous deckle edges. HC *3068; BMC II, 415 (IC. 7168); BSB B-429; GW 4232; IDL 826; IGI 1655; Pellechet 2296; Goff B-557.
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