GUTENBERG BIBLE Biblia Latina. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book ever printed with moveable type, from the collection of Otto F. Ege. The 'Noble Fragment' belongs to an imperfect copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by Newton's bibliographical essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721-94, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon Baron Zouche (1810-73) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby's, 9 November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. Otto Ege was Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, lecturer on the History of the Book at Western Reserve University and self-proclaimed biblioclast, known for compiling portfolios of leaves from great books of the 12th to 16th centuries. As the contemporary rubricated headlines make clear, II Samuel was known as II Kings in the Latin Vulgate. H *3031; BMC I, 17; GW 4201; Needham Census (PBSA, 79, 1985) P-18, P-18; Norman, Pictorial Census, pp.253-8; Goff B-526. Royal folio (390 x 287mm). Single leaf: Old Testament, containing II Samuel 11:12 – 13:5. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. Two two-line Lombard initials in red or blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Watermark: bull's head. Two pinholes visible at upper margin. (Tiny wormhole at lower corner.) Tipped into: A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco tooled in blind and gilt by Stikeman and Co., slipcase (lacking section of spine, slipcase lightly worn). Provenance: Otto Ege (1888-1951; booklabel inside lower cover).
GUTENBERG BIBLE Biblia Latina. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book ever printed with moveable type, from the collection of Otto F. Ege. The 'Noble Fragment' belongs to an imperfect copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by Newton's bibliographical essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721-94, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon Baron Zouche (1810-73) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby's, 9 November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. Otto Ege was Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, lecturer on the History of the Book at Western Reserve University and self-proclaimed biblioclast, known for compiling portfolios of leaves from great books of the 12th to 16th centuries. As the contemporary rubricated headlines make clear, II Samuel was known as II Kings in the Latin Vulgate. H *3031; BMC I, 17; GW 4201; Needham Census (PBSA, 79, 1985) P-18, P-18; Norman, Pictorial Census, pp.253-8; Goff B-526. Royal folio (390 x 287mm). Single leaf: Old Testament, containing II Samuel 11:12 – 13:5. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. Two two-line Lombard initials in red or blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Watermark: bull's head. Two pinholes visible at upper margin. (Tiny wormhole at lower corner.) Tipped into: A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco tooled in blind and gilt by Stikeman and Co., slipcase (lacking section of spine, slipcase lightly worn). Provenance: Otto Ege (1888-1951; booklabel inside lower cover).
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