Accession number
PML 127259
Object title
A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455 / with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454.
Published
New York : Gabriel Wells, 1921.
Description
[5, 1, 3] leaves ; 41 cm
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Juliet F. Gitterman, in memory of her husband, Joseph L. Gitterman, Jr., and his father, Joseph L. Gitterman, Sr., 1992.
Notes
PML 127259 contains vol. I, leaf [10]/2 (I:92) of the Gutenberg Bible with Deuteronomy 14:23-16:19 with bull's head/star watermark. Royal folio (39 x 28.6 cm).
Binding
Early 20th-century black morocco folder by Stikeman & Co.
Variant title
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Mainz(?) rubrication, alternating red and blue lombards, chapter numbers (Roman numerals), and running headlines (lombards), and red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations.
Provenance
Maria Elizabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794), Mannheim Hofbibliothek; Munich, Hofbibliothek, by 1803, where some leaves were removed and added to the former Rottenbuch copy, sold to St. Petersburg, Imperial Library, 1858 (now in the Bodmer Collection, Cologny); Robert Curzon, fourteenth Baron Zouche (1810-1873), purchased in Munich, 23 August 1832; Mary Cecil Curzon Frankland, seventeenth Baroness Zouche (1877-1965), inherited Curzon collections; Curzon/Parham sale, Sotheby's, 9 Nov. 1920, purchased by Frank Sabin; Gabriel Wells, purchased from Sabin, 1921, and individual leaves sold as "A Noble Fragment" leaf book; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mrs. Juliet F. Gitterman in memory of her husband, Joseph L. Gitterman, Jr. and his father, Joseph L. Gitterman, Sr., 1992.
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