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1491372087Basel: Nicolaus Kesler Kessler 1491. With one small polychrome gilt illuminated initial F on a2 initials in red or blue thoughout. Printed marginalia present on a2 and a7. 436 ff. 872 pp. final page is blank. 1 vols. Folio. Old leather tooled in blind clasps perished. Rebacked edges repaired last few leaves with marginal repairs final leaf of Names backed with small losses at head. Ownership marks struck out on title leaf. Very good. Cloth folding box. With one small polychrome gilt illuminated initial F on a2 initials in red or blue thoughout. Printed marginalia present on a2 and a7. 436 ff. 872 pp. final page is blank. 1 vols. Folio. Kesler's second Bible a page-for-page reprint of the edition 9 October 1487. These editions are notable for including at end the section headed "Translatores Biblie" with two notes "dealing with 1 ancient versions . and 2 with the methods of interpreting the Holy Scripture" D&M and form part of the apparatus accompanying many later editions of the Latin Bible. The first use of a title page for the Bible is ascribed to Johann Pruess in the 1486 Strassburg edition; here it is simply: Biblia. ISTC ib00591000; GW 4268; Goff B591; Copinger Incunabula Biblica 88; Darlow & Moule note at 6086. Provenance: W. A. Copinger bookplate; General Theological Seminary gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Dean Augustus Hoffman bookplates and blindstamps Nicolaus Kesler (Kessler) unknown
1476372231Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner 1476. Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Text in two columns 57 lines per page rubricated with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green; some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. bound without first and last blanks. Copiously annotated chiefly in O.T. in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio. Original pigskin stamped in blind vellum manuscript waste supports used at inner hinges last four leaves strengthened at gutter. Corners and bosses perished edgeworn some worming entering text at end; upper joint cracked and first two gatherings loosened. Vestiges of marginal tabs; a few paper. A bit rough very good. Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Text in two columns 57 lines per page rubricated with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green; some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. bound without first and last blanks. Copiously annotated chiefly in O.T. in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio. The second Bible printed by Sensenschmidt and Frisner at Nuremberg dated 1476 at the end of the Notitia by Menardus with generous margins and some idiosyncratic flourishes and decorations to the manuscript. At the foot of the first text leaf the manuscript ownership note of a brotherhood of monks in Gmünd. The second gathering includes a leaf where text on the verso is printed only in 44 lines and an inserted half leaf stub printed one side only in one column.<br /> Four stubs of blanks are visible at the end of Esdra but the text is complete resuming with Tobias.<br /> This copy bound without the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum as is often the case; that work appears frequently with Koberger editions of this period and "should perhaps be regarded as a separate work".<br /> And excellent and unsophisticated copy. ISTC ib00546000 four other locations in N. America; GW 4221; Goff B546; Delaveau & Hillard 696. Provenance: W. A. Copinger bookplate; General Theological Seminary gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Dean Augustus Hoffman bookplates and blindstamps Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner unknown
1462001313Mainz: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer 14 August 1462 1462. Fust and Schoeffer 48-line Bible Leaf. Royal folio 413 x 286 mm. Leaf 194 from gathering 20 of book one text from 2 Esdras chapter 15 and 16. Double column 48-lines printed in Gothic type. Titles and chapters in alternating red and blue letters red and blue two-line initials rubricated capital initials. Lines 35 to 41 in both columns of recto only are reset. 2 -inch closed tear to outer margin just slightly affecting text expertly repaired two old paper-clip ghosting marks to upper margin. Leaf housed in a cloth portfolio; slipcase with gilt lettered red morocco spine label. A fine leaf from the fourth edition of the Vulgate Bible or the 48- line Bible preceded only by the 42-line Gutenberg Bible the 36-line Pfister Bible Bamberg and the 49-line Mentelin Bible Strassburg. The first also to include the date of publication the place of printing and bear the name of the printer. Mainz: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1462, hardcover