Shelfmark
Gi.7.01
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1491.
Title
[Biblia latina]
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basilee : per Johannem Froben de Hammelburck., [27 June 1491]
Physical description
[992] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Includes hand-painted red and blue initials and red paraphs.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Note
Signatures: pi⁴ a-y⁸ A-Z⁸1-10⁸ 11⁴, ²11⁸, ²A-E⁸.
Note
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."
Formatted contents note
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).
Citation/references note
ISTC, ib00592000
Citation/references note
BMC, III 789
Citation/references note
Bod-inc, B-300
Citation/references note
Goff, B592
Citation/references note
GW, 4269
Citation/references note
Oates, 2836
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of A. Steinmetz (unidentified) on front pastedown.
Provenance
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.
Binding
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.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect, wanting the preliminary unsigned quire and the blank leaves.
Copy-specific note
Some 15th-century ms. notes (mostly signposts) in Genesis.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.2.
Subject
Christianity Sacred books Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Froben, Johann, 1460? - 1527 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Latton, William, 1653 - 1732 former owner.
Added entry--name
Steinmetz, A. former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51248