Bibliographic Details
| Uniform title: | Bible. Latin. Vulgate.
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| Imprint: | [Strassburg] : [Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg], [not after 1480]
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| Description: | 4 volumes ; 50 cm (folio)
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| Language: | Latin |
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| Format: | Print
Book
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| Local Note: | Copy 1, volume 4: University of Chicago Library's copy has printing error on leaf [140] recto, column 2 commentary final line not cleanly printed with some loss of text; leaf [217] torn and repaired, repair partially obscures some text on verso.
Copy 2: University of Chicago Library's copy: volume 1 lacking blank leaf [138]; volume 2 has binding error, leaves ²⁰c3.6 bound between leaves ²⁰c4.5; volume 4 lacking final blank leaf.
University of Chicago Library's copies are variants: volume 1 has portions of text and Glossa reset on leaves a1-3, ¹⁴d4.5, ¹¹b3.6; volume 2 has portions of text and Glossa rest in gatherings a, ⁹c, ¹²c, ¹³c; volume 3 has portions of text and Glossa reset in gatherings ⁶d and ⁴a; volume 4 has portions of text and Glossa reset in gatherings ¹³a and ⁴b; copy 2 likely represents an earlier state, and copy 1 a corrected state; differences include abscence/prescence of abbreviations, use of long versus round 's', straight versus round 'd' and textual corrections.
Copy 1: University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the American Bible Union Collection.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9269060 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Incipit (text), volume 1, leaf [1] recto: Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diuin[a]e histori[a]e libris incipit
Incipit (text), volume 2, leaf [1] recto: [V]iginti et duas litteras esse apud hebr[ae]os syrorum quoq[ue] lingua et chaldeorum testatur q[uae] hebraic[a]e magna ex parte co[n]finis est
Incipit (text), volume 3, leaf [1] recto: Epistola sancti Hieronimi presbyteri ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos, De libris Salomonis
Incipit (text), volume 4, leaf [1] recto: Incipit epistola beati Hieronimi ad Damasum Papam in quattuor euangelistas
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| Other uniform titles: | Glossa ordinaria.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Anselm, of Laon, -1117.
Rusch, Adolph, printer.
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer.
Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, attributed name.
Rosenberger, Ludwig, 1904-1987, former owner.
American Bible Union, former owner.
Abtei Amorbach, former owner.
Fürstliche Hofbibliothek Leiningen, former owner.
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| Provenance: | Copy 1, volumes 1, 3-4: Armorial bookplate: Roukens.
Copy 1, volume 1: Bookseller's label: B. Westermann & Co., New York.
Copy 1, volume 4: Bookplate: Library of the American Bible Union.
Copy 2: Former owner's inscription: Ex bibliotheca monasterij Amorbacensis Ordinis Sancti Benedicti.
Copy 2: Stamp: Fürstl. Leining. Hofbibliothek.
Copy 2: Bookplate: Ex libris Ludwig Rosenberger.
Copy 2: Former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands, some contemporary; manicules; underscoring.
Copy 1: Decoration: Large and medium alternating red and blue pen-flourished initials; large and medium alternating red and blue initials; rubricated in red and blue.
Copy 2: Decoration: Illuminated initials (volume 4, leaves [45] and [267] verso); large and medium alternating red and blue pen-flourished; large, medium, and small alternating red and blue initials; rubricated in red and blue; faint outline of historiated initial (volume 2, leaf [229] verso).
Copy 1: Binding: Blind tooled vellum over boards; some volumes with leather ties.
Copy 2, volumes 1-3: Binding: Blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards; brass catches, clasps (volumes 2 and 3 missing); brass bosses (volume 1 only, missing 2 bosses); pasted on manuscript cover title; red leather gilt spine label; diamond shaped pen decorated shelf mark "C 10" on spine (volumes 1 and 3); manuscript waste spine supports (visible in volume 2, 3).
Copy 2, volume 4: Binding: Blind tooled red leather over boards; brass bosses, catches, and clasps (missing); brown leather spine label: S. Hieronimus Novum Testamentum.
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| Notes: | Title devised by cataloger.
Text surrounded by Glossa ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo; interlinear glosses of Anselm of Laon.
Volume 2, leaf [1] recto variant incipit: [V]iginti et duas litteras esse ap[u]d hebroos syroru[m] quoq[ue] lingua [et] chaldeorum testat[ur] qu[a]e hebraic[a]e magna ex parte co[n]finis est.
Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
"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 ..."--Incunabula short title catalogue.
"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 ..."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.
Signatures, volume 1: a¹⁰ b-⁹b⁸ d-⁵d⁸ ⁶d⁶ ⁷d¹⁰ ²a⁸ ⁸d-¹⁶d⁸ ¹¹b-¹³b⁸ ¹⁴b-¹⁵b⁶.
Signatures, volume 2: a⁸ c-¹⁴c⁸ ¹⁵c¹⁰ b-³b⁸ ¹⁶c⁶ ⁴b⁶ ⁵b⁸ ⁶b-⁷b⁶ ⁸b⁸ ¹⁷c⁸ ¹⁸c-¹⁹c⁶ ²⁰c⁸ ²¹c⁶ e-¹⁰e⁸ ¹¹e¹⁰ ¹²e⁸.
Signatures, volume 3: b-⁵b⁸ ⁶b⁶ ⁷b-⁸b⁸ ⁹b¹⁰ g-¹¹g⁸ ¹²g-¹³g⁶ ¹⁴g¹⁰ d-⁴d⁸ ⁵d⁶ e-²e⁶ a-²a⁸ c-⁵c⁸ ⁶c-⁷c⁶ ³a⁸ ⁶d⁸ ⁴a-⁶a⁸.
Signatures, volume 4: f-¹²f⁸ ¹³f⁶ ¹⁴f¹⁰(-¹⁴f9) b⁸ ²b⁶ ³b¹⁰ a-⁸a⁸ ⁹a-¹⁰a⁶ ¹¹a⁸ ¹²a⁶ ¹³a⁸ ⁴b⁸ c⁸ ¹⁴a-¹⁷a⁸ ¹⁸a¹⁰.
Printed in 2 columns; 38-47 lines (text); 72-73 lines (Glossa); Haebler, types 1:180G, 2:106:G, 3:92G, 4:68G; capital spaces, some with guide letters.
Volume 1: [254] leaves; volume 2: [326] leaves; volume 3: [340] leaves; volume 4: [291] leaves.
Volume 1, leaf [138] blank; volume 4, last 2 leaves blank.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ib00607000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 4282
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 3173*
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry B-607
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 92 (IC. 813, IC. 814)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 299
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entry 124
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 682, 682A
Copinger, W.A. Incunabula Biblica, entry 44
Gothic type.
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