A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455 / with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940.

Contributor:

Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468, printer.

Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Ross Bible Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gutenberg Bible.

Printing--Specimens--Incunabula.

Printing.

Incunabula.

Genre:

Specimens.

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Ross, T. Edward (bookplate) (donor) (copy 1)

Morris, Effingham Buckley, 1856-1937 (donor) (inscription) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages ; 41 cm + [1] leaf ([2] pages ; 39 cm (folio))

Other Title:

Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible

Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (1450-1455)

Place of Publication:

New York : Gabriel Wells, 1921.

Notes:

The 42-line or Gutenberg Bible was printed in two parts in Mainz by Johann Gutenberg and Johannes Fust, ca. 1455. Cf. ISTC. "Sheets were seen by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini some time before his letter of 12 Mar. 1455 (E. Meuthen in Gb Jb 1982, pp. 108-18)."--ISTC.

Royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [k]10r: 42 lines to a full column; area of text: 288 x 195 mm.; col. width: 87 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

"For single leaves see Goff (Noble Fragment leaves), P. Needham in BSA 79 (1985) pp. 362-69 and E.M. White in Gb Jb 2002 pp. 19-36"--ISTC.

"These preliminary pages [i.e. Newton's essay] were printed at the shop of William Edwin Rudge, New York"--T.p. verso. Designed by Bruce Rogers.

Title in red and black.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy 1 contains leaf [k]10 (v. 1, leaf [100]), with text from Deuteronomy 31-32. Leaf size: 389 x 284 mm. Rubrication: initial supplied in blue and capital strokes in red; headline and chapter number in alternating red and blue letters.

Copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by T. Edward Ross, with his bookplate affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy 1 has laid in "Gutenberg's Printing Press" by Francis Fry (1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 cm.; printed in red and black).

Penn Libraries copy 2 contains leaf [G]3 (v. 2, leaf [297]), with text from Acts 20-21. Leaf size: 388 x 279 mm. Rubrication: initial supplied in blue and capital strokes in red; headline and chapter number in alternating red and blue letters. Bull's head watermark.

Copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1922 by Effingham B. Morris, with ms. gift inscription ("Presented to The University of Pennsylvania Jany. 4th 1922 for preservation and use by students in the Library by Effingham B. Morris (a member of the Board of Trustees of the University from 1911 to 1921)") at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy 2: left board detached.

Cited in:

Goff B-526

BM 15th cent. I, p. 17 (IC.55)

GW 4201

BN cat. des incun. B-361

BSB-Ink. B-408

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3, 4, 5

Glick, W.J. Rudge, p. 77

University of Pennsylvania. Libraries. Ross Bible, 3

ISTC ib00526000

Contains:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454

OCLC:

4628780