Bible, in Latin
Bible, in Latin
Georgius Arrivabenus, 1487/88
BIBLE, in Latin. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 27 February 1487/88.
Illuminated copy of the Bible, in a contemporary binding. HC 3099* = H 3097; BMC V 383; BSB-Ink B-460; GW 4263; Bod-inc B-295; IGI 1671; Goff B-586; ISTC ib00586000.
Super-chancery quarto (224 x 161mm). 465 leaves (of 466, leaf t7 lacking, photocopy laid in; preceded by 8 leaves, two of which with manuscript poem). Openings of Old and New Testaments illuminated with initials and partial floral borders, smaller illuminated initials and borders on reverses, elaborate red pen-flourished initials, smaller red Lombard capitals, red paragraph marks (some light browning and dustsoiling, a little bit of dampstaining in gutter, some headlines and decorated borders just shaved, original vellum pastedown preserved as flyleaf and laid down). Contemporary Nuremberg blindstamped calf gilt, brass bosses and catches, edges yellow (rebacked, spine perishing). Provenance: Johann Gedamer[?] (purchase note dated 1516) – marginalia in Latin and German, including note dated 4 March 1525 describing a severe storm at Ortenberg and Latin verse epitaph for Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, with several pages of poems commorating him.
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Bible, in Latin
Georgius Arrivabenus, 1487/88
BIBLE, in Latin. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 27 February 1487/88.
Illuminated copy of the Bible, in a contemporary binding. HC 3099* = H 3097; BMC V 383; BSB-Ink B-460; GW 4263; Bod-inc B-295; IGI 1671; Goff B-586; ISTC ib00586000.
Super-chancery quarto (224 x 161mm). 465 leaves (of 466, leaf t7 lacking, photocopy laid in; preceded by 8 leaves, two of which with manuscript poem). Openings of Old and New Testaments illuminated with initials and partial floral borders, smaller illuminated initials and borders on reverses, elaborate red pen-flourished initials, smaller red Lombard capitals, red paragraph marks (some light browning and dustsoiling, a little bit of dampstaining in gutter, some headlines and decorated borders just shaved, original vellum pastedown preserved as flyleaf and laid down). Contemporary Nuremberg blindstamped calf gilt, brass bosses and catches, edges yellow (rebacked, spine perishing). Provenance: Johann Gedamer[?] (purchase note dated 1516) – marginalia in Latin and German, including note dated 4 March 1525 describing a severe storm at Ortenberg and Latin verse epitaph for Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, with several pages of poems commorating him.
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