Accession number:
PML 16228
Uniform title:
Bible. Latin. 1476.
Published:
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1476.
Description:
[470] leaves ; 32 x 22 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf Q12v): Biblia impressa Venetiis opera atq[ue] impensa Nicolai Jenson Gallici. M.cccc.lxxvi.
Printed in types 3:106G and 6:75G, 5:93G for signatures.
Collation: a-z [et] [con] [rum] A-H¹⁰; I-L¹⁰ M¹² N-P¹⁰ Q¹²; R-T¹⁰ U-X⁸: 470 leaves, a1 and H10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.6 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding:
Modern quarter calf(?) with paper sides of faux wood grain over wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Spanish rubrication, blue and gold initials with red and blue filigree decoration (leaves a2r and a5r), alternating red and blue minor initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations.
Provenance:
Pedro (Petrus) Sánchez Muñoz, signature, 1546 (leaf a2r) and purchase inscription: "a xvi de augusto de 1546 trupero(?) de ynanos el molinero xxviii [?] deteigo(?)" (leaf X3v); Leo Olschki, unidenitified catalogue (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Olschki, Sept. 1909.
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