Details

Subject(s)

• Letter of Aristeas [Browse]

Related name

• Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475 [Browse]

Printer

• Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477 [Browse]
• Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478 [Browse]

Notes

• Title in BMC 15th cent. and Goff: Biblia Latina.
• Edited by Joannes Andreas, Bishop of Aleria.
• Place and date of publication from v. 1, p. [2]; publisher statement from colophon, v. 2.
• "Aristeas ad Philocratem fratrem per Mathiam Palmeriu[m] Pisanu[m] e Greco in Latinu[m] co[n]uersus. Incipit prohemium Aristee": v. [1], p. [4]
• WHS shelf-list has notes: 249 of 282 leaves, lacking the 3 blanks, the first 5 leaves of Dedication and Aristeas (1/2-6), all book initial leaves save one (3/5, 5/6, 7/4, 8/5, 19/4, 11/10, 12/10, 13/11, 14/1, 15/6, 16/8, 18/2, 19/7, 21/2, 23/9, 24/6, 24/10, 25/6, 27/5) and six leaves in Psalms (28/1, 29/8-12). Corners of two other leaves with book initials are torn out (22/8 I Esdras, 26/4 Job). Only book initial leaf preserved is 23/3 (Nehemiah). Lost leaves supplied with 18th-century facsimiles.

Provenance

WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.

References

• BMC 15th cent., 4:12 (IC 17163).
• GW, 4210.
• Goff, B-535.
• Hain, 3051.
• Pell 2282
• Oates 1 362
• IGI 1636
• Proctor 3316

Other title(s)

Biblia Latina.

OCLC

12221591

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