Accession number
PML 26672-75
Object title
Biblia latina. With the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. 1480.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg], [not after 1480]
Description
[1211] leaves in 4 vols. ; 49 x 35 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Ascribed to Amerbach by A. Hartmann (Amerbach-korrespondenz (1942), I, 2 n.2). The printing, however, seems to have been done by Rusch at Strasbourg with types borrowed from Amerbach, see F. Geldner in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 23 (1982), cols 684-88.
GW dated shortly after 23 Sept. 1481 but manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Oates 124 are dated 1480.
Printed in Rusch's types 1:180G, 2:106G, 3:92G, and 4:68G.
Signatures, vol. I): a¹⁰ 9xb⁸ 5xd⁸ d⁶ d¹⁰; a⁸ 9xd⁸ 3xb⁸ 2xb⁶; vol. II): a⁸ 14xc⁸ c¹⁰ 3xh⁸ c⁶ h⁶ h⁸ 2xh⁶ h⁸ c⁸ 2xc⁶ c⁸ c⁶ 10xe⁸ e¹⁰ e⁸; vol. III): 5xb⁸ b⁶ 2xb⁸ b¹⁰ 11xg⁸ 2xg⁶ g¹⁰ 4xd⁸ d⁶ 2xe⁶; 2xa⁸ 5xc⁸ 2xc⁶ a⁸ d⁸ 3xa⁸; vol. IV): 12xf⁸ f⁶ f⁸(+f2) b⁸ b⁶ b¹⁰ 8xa⁸ 2xa⁶ a⁸ a⁶ a-c⁸ 4xa⁸ a¹⁰: 1211 leaves, final leaves a9-10 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
The quire signatures, in multiple sequences of the first seven letters of the alphabet, are perhaps early press figures (BMC).
For variants see CIBN B-427.
On the authorship of the Glossa Ordinaria see B. Smalley, The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, ed. 3, Oxford, 1983, pp. x, 56-60.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.5 x 32.5 cm.
Ascribed to Amerbach by A. Hartmann (Amerbach-korrespondenz (1942), I, 2 n.2). The printing, however, seems to have been done by Rusch at Strasbourg with types borrowed from Amerbach, see F. Geldner in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 23 (1982), cols 684-88.
GW dated shortly after 23 Sept. 1481 but manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Oates 124 are dated 1480.
Printed in Rusch's types 1:180G, 2:106G, 3:92G, and 4:68G.
Signatures, vol. I): a¹⁰ 9xb⁸ 5xd⁸ d⁶ d¹⁰; a⁸ 9xd⁸ 3xb⁸ 2xb⁶; vol. II): a⁸ 14xc⁸ c¹⁰ 3xh⁸ c⁶ h⁶ h⁸ 2xh⁶ h⁸ c⁸ 2xc⁶ c⁸ c⁶ 10xe⁸ e¹⁰ e⁸; vol. III): 5xb⁸ b⁶ 2xb⁸ b¹⁰ 11xg⁸ 2xg⁶ g¹⁰ 4xd⁸ d⁶ 2xe⁶; 2xa⁸ 5xc⁸ 2xc⁶ a⁸ d⁸ 3xa⁸; vol. IV): 12xf⁸ f⁶ f⁸(+f2) b⁸ b⁶ b¹⁰ 8xa⁸ 2xa⁶ a⁸ a⁶ a-c⁸ 4xa⁸ a¹⁰: 1211 leaves, final leaves a9-10 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
The quire signatures, in multiple sequences of the first seven letters of the alphabet, are perhaps early press figures (BMC).
For variants see CIBN B-427.
On the authorship of the Glossa Ordinaria see B. Smalley, The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, ed. 3, Oxford, 1983, pp. x, 56-60.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.5 x 32.5 cm.
Binding
Vols. I, II, & IV: 15th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (49 x 35 cm), sewn on 7 supports, probably bound by the Biberach Kartäuser workshop (EBDB w004209); only tooled on the top covers. Metal corner and center pieces removed and 2 clasps missing per volume (some catch plates still present). Vol. I with German manuscript waste as rear endleaf, incomplete legal text mentioning a "Conrad Kaczenberger und Kathreyen sein Tochter" with references to Nuremberg, Langenstadt, and a house on the Judengasse in Kulmnach (Kulmbach?). Vol. I with paper shelfmark label: I (front board); II with shelfmark: I, and title labels (front board), title label missing metal frame; IV with paper shelfmark label: I (front board). Vols. I, II, and IV with chain attached to upper edge of rear board.
Inscriptions/Markings
Vols. I, II, and IV hand decoration: with contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes and underlining; primary initial with penwork decoration including jingle-bell motifs and heart pierced by an arrow (vol. I, leaf a1r).
Vol. III hand decoration: with contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes; primary initials with red/blue/green penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text, throughout all volumes.
Vol. III hand decoration: with contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes; primary initials with red/blue/green penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text, throughout all volumes.
Provenance
Vols. I, II, & IV: unidentified modern round paper label with blue frame, inscribed "870," partially torn away (vol. II, under front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1929.
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