[GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer]. BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455]. Royal folio, 389 x 286 mm. (15 5/16 x 11 1/16 in.). Single leaf: volume I, fol. 84 (9/4), from Deuteronomy I, chapters i-ii. Type: 1:146(138)G. Double column, 42 lines. Rubricated: headlines and chapter numeration in alternating red and blue lombards, red capital strokes, rubric headings in a textura hand. No visible watermark. Original six-line initial on recto excised, red and blue initial and part of second line of manuscript explicit and 33 words on verso supplied in very skilful ink fascimile, light foxing, marginal soiling. Tipped into a copy of A. Edward Newton, A Noble Fragment, New York: Gabriel Wells 1921, folio, publisher's black morocco, joints and extremities rubbed, folding cloth case (broken). H 3031*; GW 4201; Goff B-526.

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[GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer]. BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455]. Royal folio, 389 x 286 mm. (15 5/16 x 11 1/16 in.). Single leaf: volume I, fol. 84 (9/4), from Deuteronomy I, chapters i-ii. Type: 1:146(138)G. Double column, 42 lines. Rubricated: headlines and chapter numeration in alternating red and blue lombards, red capital strokes, rubric headings in a textura hand. No visible watermark. Original six-line initial on recto excised, red and blue initial and part of second line of manuscript explicit and 33 words on verso supplied in very skilful ink fascimile, light foxing, marginal soiling. Tipped into a copy of A. Edward Newton, A Noble Fragment, New York: Gabriel Wells 1921, folio, publisher's black morocco, joints and extremities rubbed, folding cloth case (broken). H 3031*; GW 4201; Goff B-526.

Provenance: Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); Mannheim, Hofbibliothek; Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders); Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810-1873; and by descent until sold:) Sotheby's, 9 November 120, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves and in larger fragments, many accompanied by A. Edward Newton's essay, as here. (For an extensive list of these fragments, see Don Cleveland Norman, The 500th Anniversary Pictorial Census of the Gutenberg Bible, Chicago, 1961, pp. 253-258, the present leaf unlisted).