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BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Fust, 1455].
Royal 2o (391 x 281 mm). Single leaf: vol. I, fol.*** (I: ), containing III Kings 22:41-IV Kings 2:13. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. One six-line initial in red and blue with brown penwork (forged replacement inlaid), headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Unwatermarked half of sheet. (Initial section replaced with some loss of text [supplied in manuscript on recto and verso], section of blank lower margin cut and repaired.) Tipped-in A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco gilt, by Stikeman and Co. (minor wear to extremities).
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 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to -- Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by A.Edward Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments -- Frank J. Hogan -- Estelle Doheny (bookplate) -- donated to SMS 20 June 1946.
BMC I, 17 (IC.55); BSB-Ink. B-408; CIBN B-361; DeRicci/Mayence 53 (=78); GW 4201; Hain *3031; Needham P18; Norman, pp. 253-258; Pr 56; Goff B-526.
Royal 2o (391 x 281 mm). Single leaf: vol. I, fol.*** (I: ), containing III Kings 22:41-IV Kings 2:13. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. One six-line initial in red and blue with brown penwork (forged replacement inlaid), headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red. Unwatermarked half of sheet. (Initial section replaced with some loss of text [supplied in manuscript on recto and verso], section of blank lower margin cut and repaired.) Tipped-in A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Dark blue morocco gilt, by Stikeman and Co. (minor wear to extremities).
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 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to -- Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by A.Edward Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments -- Frank J. Hogan -- Estelle Doheny (bookplate) -- donated to SMS 20 June 1946.
BMC I, 17 (IC.55); BSB-Ink. B-408; CIBN B-361; DeRicci/Mayence 53 (=78); GW 4201; Hain *3031; Needham P18; Norman, pp. 253-258; Pr 56; Goff B-526.