Description
Bible, leaf from 1462 Bible Latin.- Single leaf, from Kings I chapters 15 to 17, double column, 48 lines, Gothic type, 2 initials supplied in red and blue with large marginal flourishes, chapter numbers and head-lines in red and blue, ruled, some light finger-soiling to margins, [BMC I 22; Goff B529; GW 4204], folio, (403 x 300mm.), [Mainz, Johannes Fust and Peter Schoeffer], [1462].
⁂ A leaf from the first dated bible (and the fourth edition of the Vulgate); preceeded only by the Gutenberg Bible at Mainz, the Pfister Bible at Bamberg and the Mentelen Bible at Strasbourg. Consisting of parts of chapters 15 and 17 and all of 16.
Lot 93
Bible, leaf from 1462 Bible Latin.- Single leaf, from Kings I chapters 15 to 17, [Mainz, Johannes Fust and Peter Schoeffer], [1462].
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Bible, leaf from 1462 Bible Latin.- Single leaf, from Kings I chapters 15 to 17, double column, 48 lines, Gothic type, 2 initials supplied in red and blue with large marginal flourishes, chapter numbers and head-lines in red and blue, ruled, some light finger-soiling to margins, [BMC I 22; Goff B529; GW 4204], folio, (403 x 300mm.), [Mainz, Johannes Fust and Peter Schoeffer], [1462].
⁂ A leaf from the first dated bible (and the fourth edition of the Vulgate); preceeded only by the Gutenberg Bible at Mainz, the Pfister Bible at Bamberg and the Mentelen Bible at Strasbourg. Consisting of parts of chapters 15 and 17 and all of 16.