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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Biblia.

Accession number
PML 16230
Object title

Biblia.

Uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1487.
Published

[Basel] : Impensis attame[n] [et] singulari cura spectabil[is] viri Nicolai Keslers ciuis Basileen[sis], Anno legisnoue milesimoquadringentesimo octuagesimo septimo. Vicesimoquarto kal[ends] Noue[m]bris [9 October or 24 November 1487].

Description

[436] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r.
Explicit and colophon, leaf 2F7v verso: Immensas omnipotenti deo patri, qui leges [et] mandata ore suo edita [et] digito ipsius scripta, in hoc sacro sancto volumine mortalibus tradidit. Et filio qui in hac ipsa lege promissus atq[ue]sanctoru[m] p[ro]phetarum ore diuulgatus, mediator dei [et] hominum versus deus [et] homo humanu[m] genus a diaboli potestate redemit. Et Spiritui Sancto qui huius sancti operis verus auctor [et] inspirator extitit. Intemerate q[uoque]Virgini Marie in qua vniuerse leges [et] p[ro]phetie huius voluminis consummate sunt. Simulq[ue] toti militie triumphanti, gratiaru[m] referimus acto[n]nes. Cuius iuuamine hoc sacro sanctum opus in p[rae]sidium sancte fidei catholice, solicitius emendatum, claris litteris impressum, feliciter q[ue] est co[n]summatu[m]. Impensis attame[n] [et] singulari cura spectabil[is] viri Nicolai Keslers ciuis Basileen[sis]. Anno legisnoue milesimoquadringentesimo octuagesimo septimo. Vicesimoquarto kal[ends] Noue[m]bris.
Printed in Kessler's types 1:180G, 2:82G, 4:93G, 5:280G, and 6:64G.
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ k-m⁸ n-q⁶·⁸ r⁶ [long s]⁸ s-z⁶·⁸ [et]⁶ [con]⁸ [ter]⁸ A-G⁸ H⁶ I-L⁸ M⁶ N-O⁸ P⁶ Q⁸ R-V⁶ X⁸ Y-Z⁶ 2A⁸ 2B-2D⁶ 2E-2F⁸; 2G⁶; ²a⁶ ²b-c⁸.
Paper format: Median folio.
Text printed in 2 columns, table in 4 columns; 56 lines (text), 71 lines (table); capital spaces with guide letters; printer's device on leaf 2F7 verso.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21 cm.
Binding
17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (32.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; red edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary south German (Augsburg or Nuremberg?) foliate initials, alternating red and blue initials, yellow capital strokes. Annotations: A few marginal notationis sporadically throughout.
Provenance
A.W.B., 1613, stamped on binding; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Sept. 1909.
Classification
Century
Department