Biblia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. 1479.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Block, Gordon A. (donor)

Block, Reba Fleisher (honoree)

Block Bible Collection

Physical Description:

452 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Biblia latina

Incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit ep[isto]la sa[n]cti Hieronymi ad paulinum p[res]b[yte]r[u]m de o[mn]ib[us] diuine historie libris

Fingerprint:

iaos o-ge s*t: isst (C) 1479 (R)

Place of Publication:

I[m]pressa Venetiis : Opera at[que] impe[n]sa Nicolai Ienson Gallici, Mcccclxxix [1479]

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon (leaf P12 verso), which reads: Biblia i[m]pressa Venetiis opera at[que] impe[n]sa Nicolai Ienson Gallici .M.cccc.lxxix.

Median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 51 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 236 (251) x 156 mm.; col. width: 73 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf V8r.

Signatures: a-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ [rum]¹⁰ A-E¹⁰ F⁶ G⁸ H-O¹⁰ P¹² Q-S¹⁰ T-V⁸ (leaf a1 blank).

"Incipiunt interpretatio[n]es hebraico[rum] nominum s[ecundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti"--Leaf Q1r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 325 x 225 mm.

Penn Libraries copy largely without rubrication: initial and paragraph mark supplied by a reader in blue on leaves b3v and b8r; capital strokes supplied by a reader in yellow on leaves L4v-L6r; some initials supplied by a reader in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. interlinear notes(?) in red ink on leaves L4v-L6r; a few early ms. underlines, marks and annotations in brown ink in text; ms. manicule in brown ink on leaf k8r; ms. signature mark supplied in brown ink at foot of leaf g5r.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; several newspaper clippings regarding the sale and possession of old printed Bibles pasted to blank flyleaf preceding leaf a2; partially illegible ms. inscription ("Edit. secū. [...]") in brown ink on verso of blank flyleaf preceding leaf a2

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother, Reba Fleisher Block.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in; paper sheet with typescript description of this copy in red and black laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled calf; boards mended and spine rebacked; title ("BIBLIA SACRA") stamped in blind on spine; blind-tooled cover edges; marbled endpapers.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves a1 (blank) and V8 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has small hole in upper portion of leaf a2 with minor damage to text; leaf a2 mended at outer margins; wormhole in inner margin of leaves a2-a8; some leaves dampstained at outer margins.

Cited in:

Goff B-563

BM 15th cent. V, 180 (IB.19726)

GW 4238

BN cat. des incun. B-395

BSB-Ink. B-434

ISTC ib00563000

OCLC:

54361668