[Biblia Latina].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. 1479.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Copeland, Lammot du Pont, Mrs. (donor)

Copeland, Lammot du Pont, 1905-1983 (honoree)

Physical Description:

538 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit epistola sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinu[m] presbyteru[m] de omnib[us] diuin[a]e histori[a]e libris

Fingerprint:

mane r*u- a-a- adNe (C) 1479 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], MCCCCLXXIX [1479]

Notes:

Title, place of printing and printer's name from ISTC.

Imprint date from colophon on leaf [530]v.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 47 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 214 (232) x 132 mm.; col. width: 60 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. Printed marginalia in the New Testament and the index of liturgical readings. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-y¹⁰ A-T¹⁰ V¹² X-Y¹⁰ 1-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ (leaf a1 blank).

Without the further 34 leaves (11¹⁰ 12-13¹²) found in some copies, containing the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum and a final blank leaf. Cf. BM 15th cent. "According to GW, the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum sometimes found with copies of this edition are in fact from the 1481 edition, Goff B571"--ISTC.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 295 x 206 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red or blue; underlines, paragraph marks and some capital strokes supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with illuminated colored portrait of St. Jerome with his lion surrounded by a colored floriate border, the whole outlined in red, pasted in initial space in left-hand column of leaf a2r (the initial itself is supplied in dark ink in the margin of the following line).

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. annotations in Latin and German in red or brown ink in text; early ms. underlines and marks in brown ink in text; modern ms. note in pencil in English at foot of leaf K7r; modern ms. note in English in pencil regarding the sale of a Latin Bible printed in 1462 on front pastedown; early ms. manicules in brown and red on leaf I1v; early ms. transcription of the Letter of Lentulus in brown ink on leaf a1v.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with typescript exhibition description of this copy laid in; paper slip with modern ms. note (signed: J.B. Pearse) regarding the transcription and translation of the ms. inscriptions on leaf a1 laid in.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1984 by Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland in memory of her husband.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible dated 17th-century ms. inscription ("die frau[...] wirttin zu[m?] Tuchbreittern hat d[...]s buch den herren Capucinern [...]eehrtt [i.e. geehrtt?] 1610") regarding the donation of this volume by a woman to the Capuchin friars on leaf a1r; partially illegible early ms. ownership inscription ("Loci Capucinoru[m] [...]") of a Capuchin friary in fore-edge margin of leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled parchment(?) over indented, square-edge wooden boards; 2 metal catchplates; remains of 2 leather and metal clasps; 4 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after gathering 9 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: some leaves at beginning of volume lightly wormed in margins; some leaves at end of volume lightly wormed; binding wormed with damage to tail of spine and tail corners of boards.

Penn Libraries copy: tail outer corner of leaf [530] torn off with some loss of text; leaves b1, b10, s1, and s10 reinforced at inner margin; leaf G9 torn at tail inner corner; leaf Q1 torn at inner margin; leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to ms. marginalia; head outer corner of front free endpaper torn off with loss of early ms. inscription.

Cited in:

Goff B-561

BM 15th cent. III, p. 745 (IB.37264)

GW 4236

BN cat. des incun. B-394

BSB-Ink. B-433

ISTC ib00561000

OCLC:

8843794