Biblia cu[m] concordantiis veteris et noui testame[n]ti : Sanctus Hieronimus interpres biblie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruno, Gabriello, active 1480-1514

Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1497.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Brand, George (autograph, 1824)

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (bookplate)

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (bookplate)

Strong, Isobel (autograph)

Zumbusch, Joannes (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

492 unnumbered leaves (leaf [472] blank) ; 28 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Biblia Latina.

Fingerprint:

.ab. a.q. els: lihi (C) 1497 (R)

Place of Publication:

Argentine i[m]p[re]ssu[m] : [Johann Grüninger], Anno d[omi]ni MCCCCXCVII sexto vero Kalendas Maij [26 Apr. 1497]

Notes:

Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf Z5v; printer's name from ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf c1r: 54 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia (some leaves have 68 or 75 lines); area of text: 222 (236) x 141 (171) mm.; col. width: 67 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Large woodcut title illustration (116 x 138 mm.) of St. Jerome in the desert and in his study (Schreiber 3471; Schramm XX, p. 22).

Signatures: pi⁸ a-z⁶ aa-gg⁶ hh-kk⁸ ll⁶ mm⁸ nn-pp⁶ qq⁸ rr⁶ ss⁸ tt⁶ vv-xx⁸ yy⁶ zz⁸ A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸ F⁶ G⁸ H-I⁶ K-X⁸ Y-Z⁶, ²a-b¹⁰.

Leaf Z6 is blank; leaves pi2, pi3, pi4 and pi5 signed "2" "3" "4" and "v", respectively.

With the table of Gabriello Bruno (revised).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 267 x 193 mm.

Rubrication: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlines supplied in red ink; evidence of large colored initial on leaf a1r (red penwork extensions in margin); 8-line initial in red and blue with red penwork extensions on leaf a3v; 2 7-line initials in red and brown, 1 on leaf q5r and 1 on leaf hh8v; title illustration partially hand-colored in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy has several ms. calculations in brown ink and pencil on front pastedown and verso of leaf preceding title leaf; partially illegible early ms. inscription ("de Anno 1497 [...] in calce libri[?]") at foot of title leaf; some early ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has bookplate ("From the Library of Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima") with autograph of Isobel Strong on front pastedown; autograph ("Geo. Brand 1824") in brown ink on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of Edward B. Krumbhaar on front free endpaper; ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris J.W. Hui[...]man Sacerdotis Liege 14 October 1769"), struck through and partially illegible, on verso of leaf preceding title leaf; early ms. ownership inscription ("Joannes Zum Busch Pastor in Recke me suis annumerat" -- probably the Catholic pastor of Pfarrkirche St. Dionysius in Recke, d. 1649) on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has typescript card identifying this volume as "Robert Louis Stevenson's Incunabulum Bible" laid in; bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled leather; 4 raised bands on spine; "Biblia Sacra" tooled in blind on spine; all edges stippled red.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf a6 wanting; all after leaf Z5 (Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominorum) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: large ms. initial on leaf a1r excised with loss of corresponding text on verso; leaves cropped at all margins with occasional damage to headline and ms. marginalia; title leaf and leaves pi7-pi8 torn and mended along fore-edge; leaves pi2-pi6 torn and mended along fore-edge with minor damage to text; leaves a2-a3 and b1-b2 torn and mended along fore-edge with minor damage to printed marginalia; leaves a4-a5 torn along fore-edge; leaf pi2 reinforced along head edge with a blank leaf; leaf Z5 torn and mended at fore-edge.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves of gathering x bound in out of order as follows: x3, x1, x2, x5, x6, x4.

Cited in:

Goff B-600

BM 15th cent. I, p. 111 (IB.1456)

GW 4277

BSB-Ink. B-476

BN cat. des incun. B-422

ISTC ib00600000

OCLC:

84300667