Biblia [Low German].

Accession number:

PML 33901-02

Uniform title:

Bible. Low German. 1478.

Published:

Cologne : [Heinrich Quentell], [approximately 1478]

Description:

[542] leaves (in 2 volumes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 40 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1937.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Quentell's type 1:102G.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8-9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11-17⁸ 18⁶ 19⁸ 20-21¹⁰; 22-24⁸ 25¹⁰ 26⁸(5+1: Unde alle syn negesten) 27-29⁸; 30-31¹⁰ 32⁸; 33¹⁰ 34-36⁸ 37⁶; 38¹⁰ 39-40⁸ 41¹⁰ 42-50⁸ 51⁶; 52¹⁰; 53-54¹⁰ 55⁸ 56⁶(2+1: sitte[n]. We[n]te een itlick); 57-58¹⁰ 59⁸ 60¹⁰ 61-62⁸ 63¹⁰; 64⁸]: 542 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [64]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
113 woodcut illustrations, including repeats of same woodcut in New Testament, and woodcut borders.
With glosses according to Nicolaus de Lyra's postils.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.5 x 28 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [64]/8 (blanks).

Binding:

19th-century English full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, with gilt-tooled turn-ins, over heavy paper boards (40 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, L-brackets and underlining; primary initials painted with foliate decoration. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations throughout text; early manuscript notation: "Lambek[us]" (leaf [21]/3r).

Provenance:

Unidentified Dutch inscription, partially inked out, 18th/19th century (leaf [64]/7v); Henry H. Gibbs, 1862, inscription: "bought of Boone, unbound £14.14" (vol. I, front pastedown) and Aldenahm House armorial bookplate, Bible no. 47 and shelfmark: L I-b. (vol. II, front pastedown), also with a sheet of notes regarding the watermarks (laid-in at vol. II, front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, April 1937.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Woodcuts

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books