[Biblia latina].

Accession number:

PML 17067

Uniform title:

Bible. Latin. 1489.

Published:

[Speyer] : [Peter Drach], 1489.

Description:

[582] leaves ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907/08.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Explicit (leaf X6v): Fontib[us] ex grecis hebreo[rum] quoq[ue] libris. Emendata satis [et] decorata simul. Biblia su[m] p[raese]ns superos ego testor [et] astra. Est impressa nec in orbe mihi similis. Singula queq[ue] loca cu[m] [con]corda[n]tib[us] exta[n]t. Orthographia si[mu]l q[ue]m b[e]n[e] pressa manet. M.CCCCLXXXIX.
Printed in Drach's types 7:84G, 10:156G, 10*:180G, and 11:90G.
Collation: a-z, aa-cc⁸ dd⁶ ee-zz, A-E⁸ F-G¹⁰ H-T⁸ V-X⁶; Y⁸; AA-EE⁸: 582 leaves.
Paper size and format: Chancery folio.
Headlines. Printed concordance marginalia in New Testament.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19 cm

Binding:

16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over paper boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with added on extended (Yapp) edges. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 2 ties, wanting.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, with red capital strokes and L-brackets in Genesis only; illuminated initials, Augsburg style (leaves a2r and gg7v). Annotations: Minimal marginal notations, 16th-/17th-century hand. Inscription from Eccl. 2.4, 17th-/18th-century (front pastedown). "Biblia 1635" on spine.

Provenance:

Augustinus Kugler, inscription, 1635: "[Ist]e Biblia[m] compingi curavit Augustinus Kugler vicarius in [??]ert & Sasserstetten [near Passau and Kloster Asbach]. An[n]o 1635" (front pastedown); Rupertus Reüttner, inscription, 1667: "Nunc librum emit F. Rupertus Reüttner vicarius in [?]inichham A. [1]667" (front fly leaf); Asbach (Bavaria), St. Matthew, Benedictines, inscription, 17th/18th century: "In usum fratrum Aspacensium" (leaf a2r); Munich, Court Library, duplicate inscription (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan, purchased in Dec. 1907/Jan. 1908.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Rubrics

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Yapp style bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books