BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480.
BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Gothic types. Opening initial in green with red penwork decoration, other initials in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (Without first blank, some staining, neat tear into text in I5, last leaf repaired on verso with loss of a few letters, blue initials sometimes washed out.) 19th-century half burgundy morocco, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance : early marginal annotations (sometimes trimmed or washed) -- Jesuit house "Pauperes Evangelizantur" stamp) -- [?Robert Van Biesebroeck (1923-2001, Bruges collector, cf. De Gulden Passer , p. 20) -- André Himpe ( De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 27). Rare on the market; no copy of this edition has been sold at auction in over 35 years. HC *3080; GW 4245; BMC V, 276; BSB-Ink B-441; Bod-inc B-279; Goff B-570.
BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480.
BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Gothic types. Opening initial in green with red penwork decoration, other initials in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (Without first blank, some staining, neat tear into text in I5, last leaf repaired on verso with loss of a few letters, blue initials sometimes washed out.) 19th-century half burgundy morocco, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance : early marginal annotations (sometimes trimmed or washed) -- Jesuit house "Pauperes Evangelizantur" stamp) -- [?Robert Van Biesebroeck (1923-2001, Bruges collector, cf. De Gulden Passer , p. 20) -- André Himpe ( De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 27). Rare on the market; no copy of this edition has been sold at auction in over 35 years. HC *3080; GW 4245; BMC V, 276; BSB-Ink B-441; Bod-inc B-279; Goff B-570.
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