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BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Fust, 1455].
Royal 2o (390 x 284 mm). Single leaf from vol. I, containing II Chronicles 9,10,11, containing the story of Solomon and Sheba. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. Two two-line Lombard initials supplied in red and blue. (Incision along fore-margin with old silk repair [not affecting text].) 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. (extremities lightly rubbed).
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.
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 (390 x 284 mm). Single leaf from vol. I, containing II Chronicles 9,10,11, containing the story of Solomon and Sheba. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:140G. Two two-line Lombard initials supplied in red and blue. (Incision along fore-margin with old silk repair [not affecting text].) 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. (extremities lightly rubbed).
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.
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.