Biblia [German].

Accession number:

PML 126004

Uniform title:

Bible. German. 1483.

Published:

In der löblichen keyserlichen reychstat Nürenberg : gedruckt durch Anthonium Koburger, vierzehenhundert vnd in dem dreyvndachtzigsten iar, am montag nach Inuocauit [17 February 1483].

Description:

2 volumes (CCXCV, [2], CCXCVI-CCCCCLXXXIII, [1] leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 48.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Hie hebet an die Epistel des heyligen priesters sant Jheronimi zu Paulinu[m] vo[n] allen götlichen büchern der hystori.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [75]/5v: Disz durchleuchtigist werck der gantzen heyligen geschrifft. genant dy bibel für all and vorgetrücket teutsch Bible[n]. lauterer. clarer. vnd warer nach rechter remey ner teutsch. mit.hohez vnd gros zem vleys z.gege[n]dem lateynischen text gerechtuertigt. vnds chidlich punctirt. mit vbers chrifften bey dem meystenteyl der capitel vnd psalm. iren inhalt vnd vzsach. anzaygende. Vn[d] mitschönen figuren dy hystorie[n] bedeute[n]de. hat hie einendo. Gedruckt durch anthonium koburger in der löblichen keyserlichen reychstat Nürenberg. Nach der geburt cristi des gesetzs der genaden. vierzehenhundert vnd in dem dreyvndachtzigste[n] iar. am montag nach Inuocauit. V[o]m wellich volbzigung. sey lob. glori. vndere. der hohen heylige[n] dry ualtigkeit. vn[d] eynigem wesen. dem vater vn[d] dez sun vnnd dem heyligen geyst. der da lebt vnnd regiret gott ewigklich amen.
Printed in Koberger's types 10:120G and 11:162G.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-4⁸ 5⁶ 6-37⁸ 38⁶; 39-72⁸ 73-75⁶]: 586 leaves, leaves [38]/6, [39]/1 and [75]/6 blank. Variant collation in BMC: [a¹² b-c⁸ d⁶ ...].
Paper format: Royal folio.
109 woodcuts, reused from Quentell's Low German Bibles printed in Cologne.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.5 x 26 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [38]/6, [39]/1 and [75]/6 (blanks).
PML copy bound as 1 volume.

Binding:

Late 16th/17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (48.5 x 28 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; blue edges. 2 clasps, missing (catch plates present); corner plates and center bosses mis

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Biblia Germanica

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: 15th-century Nuremberg (Koberger-shop) rubricaiton, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes; primary initials illuminated on blind-stamped gold ground or in red/blue with penwork decoration. Rubrication styles different in two parts of text, but illumination and hand-coloring of woodcuts is consistent. Illuminated initial D over rubricated initial (leaf [39]/2r). Woodcuts hand-colored, a few with illumination in same style as primary initials. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Abraham Geigern of Ravensburg, unidentified inscription: "Abraham Geigern Apo[???] zu Ravenspurg [???]," 16th century (leaf [39]/2r); Johannes Tulla (1652-1721), purchase inscription: "Diese Bibel welche 1483 Jahr nach der Menscheverdung des Evigem Sohns Gottes, 43 Jahr nach Erfindung der Buchdrücker-Kunst ... das ich M. Johannes Tulla Evangelischer Prediger alhinn zu Ravenspurg gekauft A.C. 1700 et 26 Februar," 26 February 1700 (front endleaf 2 recto) and citations to theological commentaries (front endleaf 3 recto); Ludwig Rudolph, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1671-1735), monogram bookplate: "Ex bibliotheca Ducis Brunsvicensis et Luneburgensis," with crowned LR (front pastedown); unidentified (Tulla shelfmark: xxxvi 9 (front endleaf 1 recto); Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (1811-1886), of Hanover, ex libris inscription, 1841 (leaf [1]/1r), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Feb. 1870, lot 188; E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelfmark: SP48 (rear pastedown), bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Stained edges (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books