Accession number
PML 75770
Object title
[Biblia latina].
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. 1478.
Published
Venice : Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, M.cccc.lxxviii [1478].
Description
[456] leaves ; 31 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Leonard B. Schlosser, 1973.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf qq12v): Biblia impressa Venetiis opera atq[ue] impe[n]sa Theodorici de Reynsburch [et] Reyndaldi de Novimagio Theutonico[rum] ac socio[rum]. M.cccc.lxxviii.
Printed in types 1:77G and 2:150G.
Collation: a-h¹⁰ i-l¹² m-t¹⁰ v¹⁴ x-z [et] [con] aa-gg¹⁰ hh⁸; ii-ll¹⁰ mm¹² nn-pp¹⁰ qq¹²; A¹⁰ B-C¹²: 456 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 19.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank); leaves a2 and a1 with sections of margins cut away and replaced, leaf r6 partially torn away with some loss to text and patched.
Colophon (leaf qq12v): Biblia impressa Venetiis opera atq[ue] impe[n]sa Theodorici de Reynsburch [et] Reyndaldi de Novimagio Theutonico[rum] ac socio[rum]. M.cccc.lxxviii.
Printed in types 1:77G and 2:150G.
Collation: a-h¹⁰ i-l¹² m-t¹⁰ v¹⁴ x-z [et] [con] aa-gg¹⁰ hh⁸; ii-ll¹⁰ mm¹² nn-pp¹⁰ qq¹²; A¹⁰ B-C¹²: 456 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 19.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank); leaves a2 and a1 with sections of margins cut away and replaced, leaf r6 partially torn away with some loss to text and patched.
Binding
16th/17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (31 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; blue-green edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: German rubrication, red outline lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; most major initials unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in quire a only.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf mark: 32, on blue-framed paper label, partially torn away, 19th century (rear board); Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamp (front pastedown); Nellie Baker, of Alvy, WVa, name written on slip of paper laid-in; Leonard B. Schlosser (d. 1991), booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Leonard B. Schlosser, Dec. 1973.
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