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BIBLE, Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455].
Royal 2o (360 x 260 mm.) Single leaf: vol. II, fol. 125, containing Ezekiel 39:7-40:27. 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:146(138)G. Flourished initial and capital strokes in red. Folding morocco-backed case. Provenance: Trier, Benedictines of St. Maximin; Trier, Stadtbibliothek; anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 21 June 1937, to A.S.W. Rosenbach; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.; Charles Scribner's Sons.
A leaf from one of the paper copies of the first book printed with moveable types. The present leaf is from the now widely dispersed Trier Stadtbibliothek copy. Originally part of the library of the Benedictines of St. Maximin, the copy was lost following the French occupation in 1794. In 1828 63 leaves of vol. I and 261 leaves of vol. II were discovered in a farmhouse in Olewig, near Trier, by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach, Librarian of the Trier Stadtbibliothek. In the late nineteenth century the substantial fragment of volume I was acquired by a private collector. Volume II was sold by the Trier Library some time before 1937 and it appeared at Sotheby's on 21 June of that year, when it was purchased by Dr. Rosenbach for Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. After acquiring the nearly complete Shuckburgh copy in 1953, Houghton sold the Trier volume to Scribner's, who broke it up. The largest portion, the New Testament, went to George A. Poole, Jr., who bequeathed it to the Lilly Library; smaller fragments went to Southern Methodist University, the Scheide Library, and others. Most of the remaining leaves were sold individually.
Goff B-526; H *3031; GW 4021; BMC I, 17 (IC.55); Paul Needham, "The Paper Supply of the Gutenberg Bible", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 79, no. 3, 1985, Appendix B, Census of Copies, P48; Don Cleveland Norman, The 500th Anniversary Pictorial Census of the Gutenberg Bible, Chicago 1961, pp. 112-113 and 253-258; Norman 229.
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A leaf from one of the paper copies of the first book printed with moveable types. The present leaf is from the now widely dispersed Trier Stadtbibliothek copy. Originally part of the library of the Benedictines of St. Maximin, the copy was lost following the French occupation in 1794. In 1828 63 leaves of vol. I and 261 leaves of vol. II were discovered in a farmhouse in Olewig, near Trier, by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach, Librarian of the Trier Stadtbibliothek. In the late nineteenth century the substantial fragment of volume I was acquired by a private collector. Volume II was sold by the Trier Library some time before 1937 and it appeared at Sotheby's on 21 June of that year, when it was purchased by Dr. Rosenbach for Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. After acquiring the nearly complete Shuckburgh copy in 1953, Houghton sold the Trier volume to Scribner's, who broke it up. The largest portion, the New Testament, went to George A. Poole, Jr., who bequeathed it to the Lilly Library; smaller fragments went to Southern Methodist University, the Scheide Library, and others. Most of the remaining leaves were sold individually.
Goff B-526; H *3031; GW 4021; BMC I, 17 (IC.55); Paul Needham, "The Paper Supply of the Gutenberg Bible", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 79, no. 3, 1985, Appendix B, Census of Copies, P48; Don Cleveland Norman, The 500th Anniversary Pictorial Census of the Gutenberg Bible, Chicago 1961, pp. 112-113 and 253-258; Norman 229.