Biblia [German].

Accession number:

PML 34171-72

Uniform title:

Bible. German. 1474.

Published:

Augspurg : [Günther Zainer], [approximately 1475-1476]

Description:

[2], CCCCXXi, Cx leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 43 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1937.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint place from colophon, leaf [54]/10r: Diβ durchleuchtigost werck der genczen heyligen geschrifft. genandt die Bibel fur all ander vorgedrucket teutsch biblen. lauterer. klärer. vnnd warer. nach rechter gemeinen teutsch dan[n] orgedrucket. hat hie ein ende. In der hochwirdigen keyserlichen stat Augspurg ...
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118G.
For dating, see BSB-Ink.
Edition listed under Division B in PML Checklist.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁸(2+1: "Vnnd do er wonet"); 4-21¹⁰ 22¹⁰(2+1 (half-leaf): "Herre got almächtiger") 23-41¹⁰ 42-43⁸; 44-54¹⁰]: 534 leaves. Leaf [22]/2+1 is a half-leaf printed with only 1 column of text on the verso with the Prayer of Manasseh.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut narrative and decorative initials.
Minor initials and rubrics printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 28.7 cm.
PML copy volumes divided between leaves [30]/5 and [30]/6 in Ecclesiastes.

Binding:

16th/17th-century German blind-rolled pigskin over wooden boards (43 x 30.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbads; dark blue edges. 2 clasps (fore edge pins), per volume, missing.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Biblia Germanica

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Woodcuts colored by hand (in Augsburg style). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript bound before text (2 leaves plus leaf [1]/1), indicating readings for various feasts and saints' days, based on the use in the diocese of Bamberg, with readings bracketed in text.

Provenance:

Brixen (South Tyrol, Italy), Franciscans(?), inscription: "Dis bůch gehört in die liberij der vetter im kloster zů brixen," 15th century (leaf [1]/1r); Wernigerode (Saxony-Anhalt), Fürstlich Stolberg-Wernigerödische Bibliothek, armorial ink stamps (vol. I, front endleaf 1 recto and leaf [1]/1r, vol. II, front endleaf 1 recto and leaf [30]/6r); J. M. (or J. V.) Barth. A[nno] 1746 (vol. I, front endleaf 1 recto; see also Bod-inc, B-325); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., July 1937.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books