Details

Former owner

• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]
• Abbaye de Saint-Arnould de Metz (Metz, France) [Browse]
• British Museum [Browse]

Binder

Riviere & Son [Browse]

Notes

• Title and imprint from colophon (leaf P12 verso), which reads: Biblia i[m]pressa Venetiis opera atq[ue] impe[n]sa Nicolai Ienson Gallici .M.cccc.lxxix.
• Text begins (leaf a2 recto): Incipit ep[isto]la sa[n]cti Hieronymi ad paulinum p[res]b[yte]r[u]m de o[mn]ib[us] diuine historie libris.
• Leaf a5 recto: Incipit liber genesis qui dicit[ur] hebraice bresith.
• Without pagination or catchwords.
• Printed in double columns, 51 lines to a column.
• Capital spaces, most with guide-letters.
• First leaf blank.
• Leaf Q1 recto: Incipiunt interpretatio[n]es hebraico[rum] nominum s[ecundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti.
• Leaf V8 recto: Registrum biblie.
• ExKa copy imperfect: leaf a1 (blank) wanting.

Binding note

ExKa copy in plain dark brown goatskin by Riviere & Son.

Provenance

• ExKa copy has inscription on recto of leaf a2: Sti Arnulphi Metensis Ordinis Sti Benedicti.
• ExKa copy has ownership and duplicate stamps of British Museum.
• ExKa copy has bookplate of Grenville Kane.

References

• Goff B-563
• BM 15th cent. V 180 (IB.19726)
• GW 4238

OCLC

54361668

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