Biblia latina. 36 lines.

Accession number:

PML 22217

Uniform title:

Bible. Latin. 1461.

Published:

[Bamberg] : [Printer of the 36-line Bible (Albrecht Pfister?)], [not after 1461]

Description:

[884] leaves ; (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 36-line Bible's type 1:164G.
The date of rubrication 1461 is found on a single leaf, Paris BN (DeR(M) 23,13), formerly the last leaf of the Wolfenbüttel HAB copy.
For arguments favouring Johann Gutenberg as printer see G.D. Painter, "Gutenberg and the B36 group. A re-consideration," in Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer (1970) p. 292-322. Polain assigns to Mainz, before 1460.
GW dates as about 1458, not after 1461.
Collation: [1¹⁰(+10) 2-10¹⁰ 11⁸(1+1) 12-26¹⁰ 27⁶(5+1); 28-45¹⁰; 46-59¹⁰; 60-66¹⁰ 67¹² 68-88¹⁰ 89⁶]: 884 leaves, leaves [71]/9v and [89]/5-6 blank. Copies are bound in either two volumes (divided after quire [45]) or in three volumes (divided after quires [27] and [59]).
Paper format: Royal folio
PML copy is leaf [59]/10 (Lamentationes IV-Baruch I), dimensions: 41.2 x 29.1 cm.

Binding:

Not bound, in folder.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, with red penwork decoration and red chapter rubrics. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Quire numeral "32" at bottom right edge.

Provenance:

PML 22217 removed from the volume now in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 197 m, see White, "New Provenances," 427-28: Fultenbach (Holzheim, Bavaria), Benedictines, transferred at dissolution in 1803 to: Dillingen an der Donau, Lyceum (Kreis- und Studienbibliothek), then transferred in 1915 to: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (the PML leaf was likely removed before 1915); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books