Details

Subject(s)

• Bible—Versions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

• Meer, Jacob Jacobszoon van der, active 1477-1488 [Browse]
• Yemantszoon, Mauricius [Browse]

Series

Early European books. [More in this series]

Notes

• Without the Psalms, but including the Apocrypha.
• "Generally styled the earliest printed Dutch Bible, though it does not include the Psalter or the New Testament. This version, made from the Vulgate by an unknown translator, has been variously ascribed to the beginning or middle of the fourteenth century, and had already circulated in manuscript form. The text has been to some extent revised, and the comments (drawn mainly from Comestor ...), which originally accompanied it, are here omitted, while a translation is supplied of certain books -- 1 Chronicles-Nehemiah and the Prophets -- which had hitherto been totally or partially lacking"--Darlow and Moule.
• Title from ISTC.
• Colophon, pt. 1, hh9 recto: Delf in hollaut [sic] [woodcut: arms of Delft] Deese ieghenwoerdighe bible mit horen boecken. ende elc boeck mit alle sijne capitelen bi ene[n] notabelen mees=ter wel ouergheset wt den latine in duytsche ende wel naerstelic gecorrigeert ende wel ghespelt: was gemaect te delf in hollant mitter hulpen gods ende bij ons iacob iacobs soen en[de] mauricius yemants zoen van middelborch ter eeren gods. ende tot stichticheit ende lerijnghe der kersten ghelouighe[n] mensche[n]. Ende wort voleynd. int iaer der incarnacien ons here[n] duysent vier hondert zeue[n] en[de] tseuentich. den thienden dach der maent ianuario.
• Colophon, pt. 2, MM10 recto: Deese ieghenwoerdighe bible mit horen boecken. ende elc boeck mit alle sijne capitelen. bi ene[n] notabelen mees=ter wel ouergheset wt den latine in duytsche ende wel naerstelic gecorrigeert ende wel ghespelt: was gemaect te delf in hollant mitter hulpen gods ende bij ons iacob iacobs soen en[de] mauricius yemants zoen van middelborch ter eeren gods. ende tot stichticheit ende lerijnghe der kersten ghelouighe[n] mensche[n]. Ende wort voleynd. int iaer der incarnacien ons here[n] duysent vier hondert zeue[n] en[de] tseuentich. den thienden dach der maent ianuario.
• With Van der Meer and Yemantszoon's joint device A in red on hh9 recto and MM10 recto; also the arms of Delft in black on hh9 recto.
• Vol. 1: [302] leaves ; vol. 2: [340] leaves.
• Signatures: [a-z¹⁰ aa-bb¹⁰ cc⁶ dd⁸ ( -dd8) ee-gg¹⁰ hh⁸+1; A-Z¹⁰ AA-EE¹⁰ FF⁶ GG-II⁸ KK-MM¹⁰].
• In some copies the book of Daniel (16 leaves) is bound before Machabees (see BM 15th cent.). Polain and Oates both describe examples.
• Capital spaces, with guide-letters. Illuminated capitals; other capitals, paragraph-marks, initial-strokes and underlines supplied in red. Printed in two columns. 38 lines. Without t.p., pagination, catchwords, or signatures.
• Chapter titles done by hand in red ink.
• Reproduction of original in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands).

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2012 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions.

Contents

• pt. 1. Translator's prologue "Hier beghi[n]t dat prologus va[n]der bible[n] des ouersetters te duytsche vte[n] latine", a1r-v; Genesis-IV Kings, a2r-dd7v; Hieronymus. Prologue to Machabees [Dutch], ee1r; I & II Machabees, ee1r-hh9r; 1st colophon with device, hh9r (verso blank)
• pt. 2. Chronicles-Ezekiel [with Jerome's prologues to Tobit, Jeremiah & Ezekiel, and anonymous prologues to Isaiah and Baruch], AA1r-GG8v; Daniel, HH1r-II8r (verso blank); Minor prophets [with Jerome's prologue], KK1r-MM10r; 2nd colophon with device, MM10r (verso blank).

References

• BM 15th cent., IX, p. 16
• BN cat. des incun., B-456
• Bod-inc, B-335
• Campbell, 290
• Goff, B648
• Darlow and Moule, 3271
• Hain-Copinger, 3160
• ISTC, ib00648000
• Oates, 3335, 3336
• Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 671
• Thienen & Goldfinch. Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, 396
• GW, M45710
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands) catalog, 169 E 55
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands) catalog, 169 E 56

Other title(s)

Old Testament

OCLC

894220214

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