[Biblia latina].

Accession number:

PML 19206-07

Uniform title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454.

Published:

[Mainz] : [Printer of the 42-line Bible (Johann Gutenberg) and Johann Fust], [about 1454-1455]

Description:

2 vols. of [324] and [319] leaves ; (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC/GW.
Printed in type 1:140G. In 2 columns of 42 lines.
Collation: Vol. I: [A1] 1-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰(+8*: et aurum); [A2] 11-12¹⁰ 13⁶(+4*: noluerunt); [B1] 14-24¹⁰; [B2] 25¹⁰(+7*: eliasib) 26¹⁰(+9*: oriente); [B3] 27-32¹⁰ 33⁴: 324 leaves. Vol. II: [C1] 1-13¹⁰; [C2] 14-15¹⁰ 16¹⁰(+10*: In quo polluimus); [D1] 17-26¹⁰; [D2] 27¹²; [D3] 28¹⁰ (+7*: enim cristi); [D4] 29-30¹⁰ 31⁴(+3*: nobiscum); [D5] 32¹⁰: 319 leaves, leaves [32]/9-10 blank, + π4 (rubrication guide).
Paper format: Royal folio.
In two parts: Part 1: Genesis-Psalms; Part 2: Proverbs-Apocalypse.
Sheets were seen by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini some time before his letter of 12 March 1455 to Cardinal Juan de Carvajal, which was printed in Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, later Pius II, Pont. Max. Epistolae saeculares et pontificales. [Cologne : Arnold Ther Hoernen, ca. 1480; (ISTC ip00726500)], leaves p7v-q5v (with mention of the Bible on leaf q1 verso): see Meuthen 1982, and Davies 1996, pp. 193-201, with plate.
Copies at München BSB and Vienna ÖNB have a printed rubrication guide in four leaves, π4.
PML copy Setting A: I, [2-4, 14-16]; II, [2]/1-4 and Setting B: I, [1]; II, [1]; II, [2]/5.6; II, [17]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions (both volumes): 40.8 x 28.8 cm.
PML copy lacks 5 leaves: II, [39]/10 (blank) and rubrication guide (π4).

Binding:

Both volumes: 19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled black watered morocco over paper boards (42 x 30.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports, with the gilt armorials of Mark Masterman Sykes, Henry Perkins, and Pierpont Morgan. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

42-line Bible

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue interlocking initials and lombards with red, green, blue, and brown filigree penwork decoration, red rubrics, headlines, and capital strokes. Incised guides for initials, headlines, and chapter numbers. Annotation

Provenance:

Kirschgarten bei Worms (Rhineland-Pfalz), Augustinians, decoration and rubrication, ca. 1460/15th century; Rebdorf (Bavaria), Augustinians, St. John the Baptist, probably by 1525 (destruction of Kirschgarten), recorded in Straus, Monumenta typographica (1787), pp. 9-10; likely acquired by Alexander Horne (1762-1820) from Rebdorf, ca. 1798; Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), his notes, 19 and 23 Feb. 1812 (I, front endleaf recto and II, front endleaf recto); his sale, Evans, 11 May 1824, lot 475 for £199.10.0 to Livingston and Cockeran for Perkins; Henry Ward Perkins (1778-1855), inherited by his son: Algernon (d. 1870); Perkins Library sale, Ellis, 3 June 1873, lot 865 to Quaritch for £2690.0.0; Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 649 to Quaritch; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Quaritch, 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Department:

Printed Books