Book/Printed Material Incip[it] ep[is]t[o]la s[an]c[t]i iheronimi ad paulinu[m] p[re]sbiteru[m], de om[ni]b[us] diuine historie libris ... Uniform title : Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1462
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Title
- Incip[it] ep[is]t[o]la s[an]c[t]i iheronimi ad paulinu[m] p[re]sbiteru[m], de om[ni]b[us] diuine historie libris ...
Other Title
- Uniform title : Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1462
Names
- Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466, printer.
- Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425-approximately 1502, printer.
- Ellys, Richard, Sir, approximately 1674-1742, former owner.
- Lothian, William Schomberg Robert Kerr, Marquess of, 1832-1870, former owner.
- Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- In ciuitate Moguntij ... : Per Ioh[an]e[m] fust ciue[m] et Petru[m] schoiffer de gernssheym ..., Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxij In vigilia assumpcio[n]is virgin[is] marie [14 Aug. 1462]
Headings
- - Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz
Genre
- Incunabula--Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz--1462
Notes
- - Title from incipit, leaf [1]1.
- - Imprint from colophon, leaf [49]6.
- - Signatures: [1-8]¹⁰ [9-10]⁸ [11-23]¹⁰ [24-25]⁸, [26-38]¹⁰ [39]¹² [40-48]¹⁰ [49]⁶([49]5+1).
- - Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-529
- - Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3050* (variant)
- - Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3050
- - Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4204 (with red incipits in both vols. and variant 1 of colophon)
- - Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume I, pages 22-23 (IC. 101, IC. 102, IC. 103, IC. 104)
- - Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ib00529000
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 32
- - Library of Congress. Rosenwald collection (1954), 26
- - New Testament: leaves [40]1-[49]6.
- - Printed in red and black; initials and chapter numbers in red or blue, some initials stamped blind. Spaces left for other initials and chapter numbers, and for some titles to be supplied by hand.
- - With a printer's device and date (Anno Mcccclxij) in red on leaf [25]8; printer's device at colophon, leaf [49]6.
- - LC copy: bound in 2 volumes (v. 1 ends with gathering [25], v. 2 begins with gathering [26].) Printed on paper. Initials on leaves volume 1, leaves [1]1 and [1]4 supplied in gold and colors; large pen-drawn initials in two or three colors: red, blue, and mauve; smaller initials and chapter numbers supplied in red or blue and some chapter headings in red where omitted by the printer; initial strokes in red; names of books written in alternate red/blue letters at top of each page. Contemporary marginal notes. Dutch 18th cent. red morocco binding, gold tooled.
- - LC copy: gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald. Inscriptions, leaves [1]1, [26]1: Ex Bibliotheca FF. Cruciferorum Coloniensium. Other former owners: Sir Richard Ellys; Marquess of Lothian. With the bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop.
- - BS75 1462 Copy 1 formerly classed under Incun. 1462 .B5 Copy 1. he04 2019-08-23
Medium
- [962] p. ; 41 cm (fol.)
Call Number/Physical Location
- BS75 1462
- BS75 1462 Copy 2 Imperfect: wanting all but a parchment fragment, leaves [40]4,7. Leaf [40]4 is the inner column; conjugate leaf [40]7 is heavily trimmed on the fore-edge, cutting into the text. Measures 32 x 23 cm (folded); 32 x 38 cm unfolded. Stored in a folder measuring 41 x 35 cm, covered by manuscript waste from a liturgical book (text is vespers for the Nativity.)
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- 48037378
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Contributor
- Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field)
- Ellys, Richard
- Fust, Johannes
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lothian, William Schomberg Robert Kerr
- Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
- Schöffer, Peter