Accession number
PML 21986
Object title
Biblia latina.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. 1460.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1460]
Description
[427] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1923.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's type 1:118G.
The copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has at the end of vol. I the date of rubrication 1460, at the end of vol. II 1461.
Collation: [1-9¹² 10¹⁰; 11-17¹² 18¹²(12+1: benedicc[i]o[n]e); 19-27¹²; 28-35¹² 36⁸]: 427 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
For the proof sheets pasted together in Cambridge UL (Oates 69), see Paul Needham, "Cambridge Proof Sheets of Mentelin's Latin Bible," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1986): pp.1-35.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.3 x 29.5 cm.
Printed in Mentelin's type 1:118G.
The copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has at the end of vol. I the date of rubrication 1460, at the end of vol. II 1461.
Collation: [1-9¹² 10¹⁰; 11-17¹² 18¹²(12+1: benedicc[i]o[n]e); 19-27¹²; 28-35¹² 36⁸]: 427 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
For the proof sheets pasted together in Cambridge UL (Oates 69), see Paul Needham, "Cambridge Proof Sheets of Mentelin's Latin Bible," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1986): pp.1-35.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.3 x 29.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century English blind-tooled black morocco over paper boards (41.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves. Older leather fore edge tabs.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red headlines, chapter numbers, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initials painted with penwork decoration, initial F in blue on gold with foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/1r). Initial E at Esdras II has inscription "INRIO" in letterform (perhaps a reference to Heilig Kreuz?) (leaf [14]/5v), also "INRI" and "Maria" (leaf [15]/11r). Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text, mainly NB marks. Contemporary manuscript quire signatures: letters on first folios (bottom center margin) and Arabic numerals on leaves (various places around top, bottom, and side margins). Unidentified inscription: "Ita fr. Ant. veibsr(?)," in similar hand to Heilig Kreuz inscription (leaf 36/8r).
Provenance
Augsburg (Bavaria), Heilig Kreuz, Augustinian canons, inscription: "Ex. lib. monast. Vitae [cross] Auguste" and shelfmark: "Numero primo Classe prima," 17th/18th century (leaf [1]/1r), monastery dissolved 1803 and library passed to: Munich, Hofbibliothek, “Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis” stamp abraded (leaf [1]/1v), and later sold off as a duplicate; unidentified (also Heilig Kreuz?) shelfmark: "A. IV. 3." (leaf [1]/1r); G. and W. Nichol's sale, Evans, 18 July 1825, lot 224 for £189.0.0 (sale description with inscription glued-in to front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified inscription (Stuart?): at Lilly's May 1840 (front endleaf 3 verso); William Stuart (1798-1874), inherited by his son: William Stuart (1825-1893), gilt crest on binding, Tempsford Hall Library and Aldenham Abbey booklabels (front pastedown), with shelfmarks: R 11 and I 3, respectively, Stuart sale, Christie's, 6 March 1895, lot 147 for £200.0.0 to Bernard Quaritch, purchased by: Henry Yates Thompson, Ex museum booklabel with shelf mark: E, purchased from Quaritch April 1895 for £[ree] (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, part 3, 22 June 1921, lot LXXIII; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch, March 1923.
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