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BIBLE, German. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 February 1483.
2 vols., royal folio, 359 x 267 (v.2: 370 x 259) mm. (14 1/4 x 10 1/2 [v. 2: 14 5/8 x 10 3/16] in.), new pigskin tooled in blind, folding chemises, pigskin-backed slipcases (worn), lacking 11 leaves (first 10 leaves, i.e., 1/1-4 and 2/1-6, and fol. 27/5), fols. 7/2 and 65/1 defective, 20 leaves with tears into text, most crudely repaired, of which about 6 (in vol. 1) severely damaged, vol. 1 with numerous marginal tears or repairs, foremargin to 68/5 cut away, a few leaves in vol. 2 with small squares or rectangles cut out of margins, soiling and staining, most severe in vol. 1, some dampstaining and foxing in vol. 2.
Collation: [1 4 2-4 8 5 6 6-37 8 39 6; 4 0-73 8 74-76 6]. 575 leaves (of 586, lacking leaves 1/1-4, 2/1-6, 27/5, and blank leaves 39/6, 40/1 and 76/6), foliated (with errors). Types: 10:120G (text), 11:162G (h eadings and headlines). Double column, 50 lines and headline. 109 woodcuts (87 in the Old Testament and 12 in the New Testament) fro m 108 blocks, spaces for initials. CONTEMPORARY COLORING, the cuts in vols. 1 in blue, red, orange, green, yellow , the cuts in vol. 2 in a different palette with no blue. Rubricated: 8- and 5-line initials on 40/2r supplied in blue on a burnished and gauffred gold ground within green and red borders with small extensions, 6- and 9-line initials in red in vol. 1, and in parti-colored red and blue in vol. 2, smaller initials in red or blue, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red.
The ninth German Bible. The differences in coloring, size, rubrication and marginalia seem to indicate that the two volumes come from two different copies. Sold not subject to return.
H 3137*; GW 4303; BMC II 424; Goff B-632.
Provenance: Numerous contemporary and a few later marginalia in vol. 1; a few in vol. 2 in different hands. (2)
2 vols., royal folio, 359 x 267 (v.2: 370 x 259) mm. (14 1/4 x 10 1/2 [v. 2: 14 5/8 x 10 3/16] in.), new pigskin tooled in blind, folding chemises, pigskin-backed slipcases (worn), lacking 11 leaves (first 10 leaves, i.e., 1/1-4 and 2/1-6, and fol. 27/5), fols. 7/2 and 65/1 defective, 20 leaves with tears into text, most crudely repaired, of which about 6 (in vol. 1) severely damaged, vol. 1 with numerous marginal tears or repairs, foremargin to 68/5 cut away, a few leaves in vol. 2 with small squares or rectangles cut out of margins, soiling and staining, most severe in vol. 1, some dampstaining and foxing in vol. 2.
Collation: [1 4 2-4 8 5 6 6-37 8 39 6; 4 0-73 8 74-76 6]. 575 leaves (of 586, lacking leaves 1/1-4, 2/1-6, 27/5, and blank leaves 39/6, 40/1 and 76/6), foliated (with errors). Types: 10:120G (text), 11:162G (h eadings and headlines). Double column, 50 lines and headline. 109 woodcuts (87 in the Old Testament and 12 in the New Testament) fro m 108 blocks, spaces for initials. CONTEMPORARY COLORING, the cuts in vols. 1 in blue, red, orange, green, yellow , the cuts in vol. 2 in a different palette with no blue. Rubricated: 8- and 5-line initials on 40/2r supplied in blue on a burnished and gauffred gold ground within green and red borders with small extensions, 6- and 9-line initials in red in vol. 1, and in parti-colored red and blue in vol. 2, smaller initials in red or blue, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red.
The ninth German Bible. The differences in coloring, size, rubrication and marginalia seem to indicate that the two volumes come from two different copies. Sold not subject to return.
H 3137*; GW 4303; BMC II 424; Goff B-632.
Provenance: Numerous contemporary and a few later marginalia in vol. 1; a few in vol. 2 in different hands. (2)