Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Latin Mainz, Gutenberg, ca. 1450-1455 (42 lines) [Browse]

Related name

• Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940 [Browse]

Notes

• Princeton leaf f contains II Chronicles, chapt I-II and beginning of chap. III.
• The prelim. pages (Newton's bibliographical essay) were printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers at the shop of William Edwin Rudge. Goff B-526.

Provenance

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.

LCCN

ca 28000133

OCLC

6677192

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