Biblia latina. 36 lines.

Accession number:

PML 62629

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 in honor of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, 1972.

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

Binding:

Not bound, in folder.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, roman numeral chapter numbers, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Colonel Richard Gimble (1898-1970) (note by Bühler suggesting provenance); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased via Herbert Cahoon from Carnegie Book Shop, Inc. in honor of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, April 1972.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books