Details

Related name

• Bevilaqua, Simon, fl. 1487-1503 [Browse]

Former owner

• Mather, Frank Jewett, 1868-1953 [Browse]

Notes

• Imprint from colophon.
• Woodcuts: ill., initials, printer's device.
• Capital spaces with guide letters.
• In double columns.
• 2 columns to the page; 51 lines and head-line. Gothic type (Haebler 83) Printed in black.
• A wood-cut and a large wood-cut initial or space for initial, at the beginning of each book. The wood-cuts are from the Malermi Bible of 1490; some of them are signed "b". References and sectin letters in margin.
• On binding: D. Hieronimi Biblia Sacra.
• ExI copy imperfect: lacks 53 of the 528 leaves: leaf 1-16, signed (1-4)⁸, (5-8)⁸ (title, "Ad euidentiam", metrical table, Gabriel Bruno's table); leaf 10 of first sig. a (recto, last page of Summaria; verso, wood-cut of creation in 6 compartments); and 36 leaves at end, AA-DD⁸, E⁴, including printer's device.

Binding note

ExI copy in old sheep bordered in double undulant rule in blind; marbled endpapers.

Provenance

ExI copy has bookplate of Frank Jewett Mather, Jr

References

• BM 15th cent. v.5, p.522 (IA.23978)
• Goff B-603
• GW 4280
• Hain *3124

Other title(s)

• Biblia latina.
• D. Hieronimi Biblia sacra.

OCLC

12057985

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