Gi.7.01
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1491.
[Biblia latina]
Basilee : per Johannem Froben de Hammelburck., [27 June 1491]
[992] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Includes hand-painted red and blue initials and red paraphs.
Printed marginalia.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-y⁸ A-Z⁸1-10⁸ 11⁴, ²11⁸, ²A-E⁸.
Imprint from colophon: "Explicata est biblia [im]p[en]sens Basliee su[m]ma lucubratione: per Joha[n]nem froben de Hammelburck. Anno nonagesimo-primo supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] die vero vicesimaseptima Junij."
Contents: Includes Jerome's preface, the Old and New Testaments, as well as the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum. Final leaf: 'Translatores Biblie', incipit: 'Notandu[m q[uod] translatores et interp[re]tes biblie multi fueru[n]t' (recto); 'Modi intelligendi sacra[m] scriptura[m]', incipit: "Notandu[m] q[uod] o[mn]is sacra scriptura quadriformi" (verso).
ISTC, ib00592000
BMC, III 789
Bod-inc, B-300
Goff, B592
GW, 4269
Oates, 2836
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Armorial bookplate of A. Steinmetz (unidentified) on front pastedown.
Coat of arms on the binding is a stamp of William Latton, second son of Thomas Latton of Kingston Bagpuyze in Berkshire and Mary Ayscough.
17th/18th-century armorial binding: calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with a saltire engrailed ermines and ermine, with motto "mors potior macula"; blind roll on board edges (now damaged). Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets and titling over red, damaged label ("Biblia sacra 14[9]1"). Textblock trimmed; traces of thumb tags on the fore-edge. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper; one flyleaf at the lower end of the textblock; none of the upper end.
Imperfect, wanting the preliminary unsigned quire and the blank leaves.
Some 15th-century ms. notes (mostly signposts) in Genesis.
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.2.
Christianity Sacred books Early works to 1800.
Froben, Johann, 1460? - 1527 printer.
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Latton, William, 1653 - 1732 former owner.
Steinmetz, A. former owner.
Switzerland Basel.
lat
B51248