Biblia integra, summata, distincta, sup[er]eme[n]data, vtriusq[ue], Testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.
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Title
Biblia integra, summata, distincta, sup[er]eme[n]data, vtriusq[ue], Testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1491.
Created/published
Basilee ... : Per Ioha[n]nem Froben de Hammelburck, anno [27 June 1491]
Description
[992] p. (the last [4] p. blank) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Könlein family, former owner.
Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527, printer.
Petit, R., binder.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527, printer.
Petit, R., binder.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon (leaf [2nd]11 8v), date in Latin words.
Signatures: [*]⁴, a-y⁸, A-Z⁸, 1-10⁸, II⁴, [2nd]II⁸, [2nd]A-[2nd]E⁸.
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Leaves a1, [2nd]E7 and [2nd]E⁸ are blank.
Signatures: [*]⁴, a-y⁸, A-Z⁸, 1-10⁸, II⁴, [2nd]II⁸, [2nd]A-[2nd]E⁸.
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Leaves a1, [2nd]E7 and [2nd]E⁸ are blank.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-592
BM 15th cent., III, p. 789 (IA.37873)
GW 4269
Hain-Copinger 3107
BM 15th cent., III, p. 789 (IA.37873)
GW 4269
Hain-Copinger 3107
Place of creation/publication
Switzerland -- Basel.
Item Details
Call number
INC B526
Folger-specific note
Lacks leaves [*]2-[*]4 with table, a1 (blank), and [2nd]E8 (blank); verso of title page is blank. Initials, paragraph marks and underlining of headlines and titles of chapters provided in red paint throughout the book; initial in red and blue at beginning of Genesis; all capitals in Book of Psalms have been highlighted in yellow. Manuscript notes at foot of leaf X5v, erased, illegible; notes and quotations on parchment flyleaves; same leaves also bear manuscript text, reading upside down and mostly effaced (on verso of front flyleaf, dealing with astronomy, and recto of back flyleaf, illegible). Several sets of ownership inscriptions on front and back flyleaves and on verso of last leaf, reading: "Georgius Könleÿnn sibi suisq[ue] hunc vendicat librum Anno D m.d.lxvi [...]", "Georgius Könleynn, Pastor Ecclesie Dorffgüetingenssis M.D.LXVI", and "Georgius, & Georgius Fridericus, Georgij Könleini, pastoris Ecclesiae Dorffgütingensis, piè defuncti, filij, hunc librum communem habent. Actum Argentinae Anno M.D.XCI. die vero 27. Iulij [...]"; also handwritten calculation of the age of the book to the years 1624 and 1631; another ownership inscription at foot of leaf a2r, defaced, illegible. Brown morocco binding (R. Petit) blind and gold tooled, with marbled and gilt edges; remains of a finding tab on leaf [2nd]E5 and evidence of others at beginning of each Book; repaired. Purchased in 1915.