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BIBLE, German. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17th February 1483.
Royal 2o (410 x 285 mm). Collation: [14 2-48 56 6-378 386; 39-738 74-766]. 583 leaves (of 586; lacking blanks). 50 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 10:120 (text), 11:162 (headings and headlines). 109 woodcut illustrations from 108 blocks, 5- to 8-line illuminated initials with border extentions on 1/1r, 2/1r and 39/2r by a contemporary Nuremberg artist, numerous contemporary handcolored woodcut 7- to 9-line initials pasted on initial spaces, numerous 3- to 7-line Lombard initials and paragraph marks in red. (Some marginal tears, affecting text of 18/3 and 35/6, some old marginal repairs, browning and staining heavy at beginning and end, first and last leaves reinforced along inner margin.) Modern calf-backed wooden boards. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 March 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
Ninth edition of the Bible in German, the first to be printed in Nuremberg, and the only edition printed by Koberger. The text, derived from Zainer's first German Bible of 1475/6, was used in all succeeding pre-Lutheran High German editions. The woodcuts attributed to the "Master of the Cologne Bibles," were first used in the Cologne printer Heinrich Quentell's two Low German Bibles of ca 1478 (Goff B-636 and 637), with which Koberger appears to have been associated. This book demonstrates the wide scope of Koberger's business, including planning, production, marketing and distribution. Koberger had cut two new German types for this Bible and is said to have run 24 presses to print it. The edition between 1000 and 1500 copies was available in three forms: completely uncolored, rubricated and colored simply in green, ochre and purple, or rubricated and colored in a wide variety and of colors and gold leaf. (See H. Wendland, "Eine fünfhundertjährige Inkunabel-Anton Kobergers deutsche Bibel." Philobiblon, 28, 1984, pp. 30-37.) BMC II,424 (IC. 7283); BSB-Ink. B-490; CIBN B-444; Fairfax Murray German 63; H *3137; GW 4303; Harvard/Walsh 692; Oates 1000 and 1001; Pr 2028; Goff B-632.
Royal 2o (410 x 285 mm). Collation: [14 2-48 56 6-378 386; 39-738 74-766]. 583 leaves (of 586; lacking blanks). 50 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 10:120 (text), 11:162 (headings and headlines). 109 woodcut illustrations from 108 blocks, 5- to 8-line illuminated initials with border extentions on 1/1r, 2/1r and 39/2r by a contemporary Nuremberg artist, numerous contemporary handcolored woodcut 7- to 9-line initials pasted on initial spaces, numerous 3- to 7-line Lombard initials and paragraph marks in red. (Some marginal tears, affecting text of 18/3 and 35/6, some old marginal repairs, browning and staining heavy at beginning and end, first and last leaves reinforced along inner margin.) Modern calf-backed wooden boards. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 March 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
Ninth edition of the Bible in German, the first to be printed in Nuremberg, and the only edition printed by Koberger. The text, derived from Zainer's first German Bible of 1475/6, was used in all succeeding pre-Lutheran High German editions. The woodcuts attributed to the "Master of the Cologne Bibles," were first used in the Cologne printer Heinrich Quentell's two Low German Bibles of ca 1478 (Goff B-636 and 637), with which Koberger appears to have been associated. This book demonstrates the wide scope of Koberger's business, including planning, production, marketing and distribution. Koberger had cut two new German types for this Bible and is said to have run 24 presses to print it. The edition between 1000 and 1500 copies was available in three forms: completely uncolored, rubricated and colored simply in green, ochre and purple, or rubricated and colored in a wide variety and of colors and gold leaf. (See H. Wendland, "Eine fünfhundertjährige Inkunabel-Anton Kobergers deutsche Bibel." Philobiblon, 28, 1984, pp. 30-37.) BMC II,424 (IC. 7283); BSB-Ink. B-490; CIBN B-444; Fairfax Murray German 63; H *3137; GW 4303; Harvard/Walsh 692; Oates 1000 and 1001; Pr 2028; Goff B-632.