[Biblia latina : cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis aliorumque et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849.

Anselm, of Laon, -1117

Rusch, Adolph, printer.

Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1480

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Press figures (Printing) -- France -- Strasbourg -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Boucher, Jonathan, 1738-1804 (bookplate)

Malherbe, Henry, 1886- (bookplate)

Carthusians (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Kartause Freiburg (former owner) (inscription)

Cartusia S. Joannis Baptistae (former owner) (inscription)

Bibliotheca Monasterii Sancti Pauli (stamp)

Physical Description:

1211 unnumbered leaves (leaves [138] pages, 1210 unnumbered pages 1211 unnumbered pages) ; 47 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Incipit of text (leaf a1r): Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diuin[a]e hystori[a]e libris incipit

Fingerprint:

uiat :&ra s.u* cuna (C) 1480 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Adolf Rusch] ; [Nuremberg]: [For Anton Koberger], [not after 1480]

Notes:

Title supplied from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC. "Also recorded as [Basel: Johann Amerbach, for Adolf Rusch and Anton Koberger] ... Ascribed to Amerbach by A. Hartmann (Amerbach-korrespondenz (1942), I, 2 n. 2). The printing, however, seems to have been done by Rusch at Strassburg with types borrowed from Amerbach: F. Geldner in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 23 (1982), cols. 684-88. GW dates shortly after 23 Sept. 1481 but manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Oates 124 are dated 1480."--ISTC.

Imperial folio, with text and interlinear notes printed in double columns surrounded by gloss. Leaf a5r: 73 lines to a full column of gloss, plus headline; area of text: 337 (359) x 238 mm.; col. width: 108 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures (more likely press figures; cf. BM 15th cent.); without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-⁹b⁸ d-⁵d⁸ ⁶d⁶ ⁷d¹⁰ ²a⁸ ⁸d-¹⁶d⁸ b⁸-³b⁸ ⁴b-⁵b⁶ ³a⁸ c-¹⁴c⁸ ¹⁵c¹⁰ h-³h⁸ ¹⁶c⁶ ⁴h⁶ ⁵h⁸ ⁶h-⁷h⁶ ⁸h⁸ ¹⁷c⁸ ¹⁸c-¹⁹c⁶ ²⁰c⁸ ²¹c⁶ e-¹⁰e⁸ ¹¹e¹⁰ ¹²e⁸ ⁶b-¹⁰b⁸ ¹¹b⁶ ¹²b-¹³b⁸ ¹⁴b¹⁰ g-¹¹g⁸ ¹²g-¹³g⁶ ¹⁴g¹⁰ ¹⁷d-²⁰d⁸ ²¹d⁶ ¹³e-¹⁴e⁶ ⁴a-⁵a⁸ ²²c-²⁶c⁸ ²⁷c-²⁸c⁶ ⁶a⁸ ²²d⁸ ⁷a-⁹a⁸ f-⁸f⁸ ⁹f⁶ ¹⁰f-¹²f⁸ ¹³f⁶ ¹⁴f¹⁰(-¹⁴f9) ¹⁵b⁸ ¹⁶b⁶ ¹⁷b¹⁰ ¹⁰a-¹⁷a⁸ ¹⁸a-¹⁹a⁶ ²⁰a⁸ ²²a⁶ ²³a⁸ ¹⁸b⁸ ²⁹c⁸ ²⁴a-²⁷a⁸ ²⁸a¹⁰ (leaves ⁷d10, ²⁸a9 and ²⁸a10 blanks).

"The printed signatures in this case being of no use for preserving the order of the quires, may perhaps represent the seven or eight presses at which the work proceeded, the number of the presses being doubtful owing to a mixture of the letter h in some of the quires marked b."--BM 15th cent.

"[S]ee GW, [BM 15th cent.], and Fredson Bowers, Principles of Bibliographical Description (Princeton, 1949), 494, for various attempts to produce a collational formula."--Walsh.

"The number of volumes may vary with individual sets, according to how the sheets were bound."--Walsh.

"The first four leaves occur in two settings"--Walsh. In one, leaf a1r begins: "Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diui[a]e hystori[a]e libris incipit." and leaf a3v, line 2 ends: "... diuinos libros legimus. i[n]". In the other, leaf a1r begins: "Epistola beati Hieronimi presbiteri ad Paulinum presbiteru[m] de omnibus diuin[a]e histori[a]e libris incipit." and leaf a3v, line 2 ends: "... diuinos libros legimus, in". Cf. GW.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: leaf a1r begins: "Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diui[a]e hystori[a]e libris incipit." and leaf a3v, line 2 ends: "... diuinos libros legimus. i[n]".

Leaf size: 447 x 321 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: a few large initials in red and blue ink, others in red or blue ink; paragraph marks in red or blue ink.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1 has a few ms. annotations in brown ink in text; ms. line numbers in pencil on leaf a1r.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2 has on verso of last printed leaf in volume early ms. inscription ("d[omi]n[u]s") in red ink and shelf-mark ("Pi Si N6") in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 3 has on verso of last printed leaf in volume early ms. shelf-mark ("Pi Si N3 [last numeral corrected in darker ink to: 1]") in brown ink.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1939.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: early 19th-century(?) engraved armorial bookplate ("The Revd. Jonathan Boucher, A.M." with motto: Non vi sed voluntate) of Jonathan Boucher affixed to front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Liber Car[tusi]ae s Io[ann]is Baptistae") of the Kartause Freiburg, the Carthusian house in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in brown ink at head of leaf a1r; largely effaced oval library stamp in ink at foot of leaf a1r; stamp ("ST. P.") at foot of recto of seventh printed leaf of volume.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: 2 paper slips, each with bookseller's printed description in German of this work (the first of this copy?) affixed to front pastedown; modern ms. note ("Lot 1700 in some sale") in pencil on front pastedown

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2: illustrated bookplate ("H. MALHERBE", signed "H. David '34"), probably of Henry Malherbe, affixed to front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Cartusiae Friburg: Brisgouae" with "Liber" added in another hand) of the Kartause Freiburg, the Carthusian house in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in brown ink at head of leaf a1r; oval library stamp ("Biblioth: Monasterii Sti: Pauli") in ink at foot of leaf a1r; stamp ("ST. P.") at foot of recto of seventh printed leaf of volume.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 3: illustrated bookplate ("H. MALHERBE", signed "H. David '34"), probably of Henry Malherbe, affixed to front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Cartusiensi Friburgi Brisgouae") of the Kartause Freiburg, the Carthusian house in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in brown ink at head of leaf b1r; largely effaced oval library stamp in ink at foot of leaf b1r; stamp ("ST. P.") at foot of recto of seventh printed leaf of volume.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 4: illustrated bookplate ("H. MALHERBE", signed "H. David '34"), probably of Henry Malherbe, affixed to front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Cartusiae Friburgen[sis]: Brisgouae") of the Kartause Freiburg, the Carthusian house in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in brown ink at head of leaf f1r; largely effaced oval library stamp in ink at foot of leaf f1r; stamp ("ST. P.") at foot of recto of seventh printed leaf of volume.

Penn Libraries copy bound in 4 vols. Vol. 1: Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus diuine hystorie libris-Liber Ruth; v. 2: Prologus galeatus Hieronimi in Liber regum-Liber psalmorum; v. 3: Epistola sancti Hieronimi presbyteri ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos de libris Salomonis-Secundus liber hystorie Machabeorum ; v. 4: Epistola beati Hieronimi ad Damasium papam in quattuor euangelistas-Apocalipsis.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. bound in full calf; boards triple-ruled in blind; 8 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; top spine panel has letter "A" stamped in gold; second panel has gold-stamped brown leather label ("BIBLIA SACRA CUM GLOSSA ORDINARIA"); third panel has gold-stamped brown leather label (v. 1: "GEN.-JUD. ED. SUB IN. SAEC. XVI TOMUS. I."; v. 2: "REG. PSALT. ED. SUB IN. SAEC. XVI TOMUS. I."; v. 3: "PARAB-MACHAB ED. SUB IN. SAEC. XVI TOMUS. I."; v. 4: "TESTAM. NOVUM. ED. SUB IN. SAEC. XVI TOMUS. I."); fourth panel has shelf-mark (v. 1: "D 17."; v. 2: "D 18."; v. 3: "D 19."; v. 4: "D 20."); all edges stippled red and brown.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1 has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("9.1.2.1") affixed to front pastedown; v. 2 has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("9.1.2.2") affixed to front pastedown; v. 3 has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("9.1.2.3") affixed to front pastedown; v. 4 has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("9.1.2.4") affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 3 has dried plant and leaf with early ms. table of the books of the Bible in brown ink laid in.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves ²⁸a9 and ²⁸a10 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. has a few wormholes in leaves at beginning and end of volume; bindings of vols. worn and damaged.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 3: leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional damage to headline; leaves dampstained at head and inner margins; portion of head margin of leaves b1-b8 each torn off and mended with a blank leaf; head inner corner of leaves ⁹a7-⁹a8 excised and replaced with a blank leaf.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 4: head outer corner of leaves f1-²f1 each torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; tail outer corner of leaf f1 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; head outer corner of leaves ⁵f3 and ²⁸a6-²⁸a8 torn off (mended with a blank leaf on leaves ²⁸a7-²⁸a8); tail outer corner of leaves ²⁸a7-²⁸a8 leaves mended with a blank leaf on recto; dampstained at head outer corner; some leaves at beginning of volume dampstained at tail outer corner; some leaves dampstained in tail margin; some leaves at end of volume dampstained at fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

Goff B-607

BM 15th cent. I, p. 92 (IC. 813)

GW 4282

BN cat. des incun. B-427

BSB-Ink. B-442

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 139, 140, 141

Hain-Copinger *3173

Copinger. Incunabula Biblia 44

ISTC ib00607000

OCLC:

174069684