Bible, Latin, fragment (the Psalms)

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Strasbourg, Heinrich Eggestein, ca. 1469, not after 8 March 1470].
Description
31 leaves 39 cm. (leaf 38 x 28 cm.)

Details

Binder
Notes
  • Without signatures.
  • Two columns to the page. 41 lines. Type: 141.
  • Initials supplied by hand, in two- to six-line spaces. Capitals (except in the Prologus) and headings supplied throughout by hand.
  • Leaf of manuscript in red and black, inserted between leaves 4 and 5, contains a liturgical passage to accompany Psalm 21.
  • Tipped-in is letter from George H. Moore, Superintendent of the Lenox Library, to Frederic Vinton, 4 January 1878, identifying this Psalter as a fragment of Eggestein's Latin Bible.
  • Ex copy in brown morocco, ruled and tooled in blind and gold, and stamped on verso of front free endpaper: J. R. Wesby, Binder, Trenton, N. J.
Source acquisition
Gift : Evan James Henry, 1878.
References
  • Hain, *3035
  • Proctor, 258
  • Goff, B-533
OCLC
1340128331
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