Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 16,100
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia Latina.] 394 (of 437) leaves; lacks the 2 blanks and the 41-leaf section (Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum) at the end. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 400x275 mm, early pigskin over wooden boards, neatly rebacked, soiled, covers lack bosses; tiny wormholes at beginning and end not impairing legibility, scattered marginal stains, blank outer margin of [b]9 excised (see note in BMC), repaired clean tear in [s]8, otherwise a clean, wide-margined copy. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner], (1476)

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Complete Bible text, but without glossary of Hebrew names (also absent in the British Library copies). GW 4221; BMC II, 408; Goff B546. With old inscription of the Carthusian monastery of Prüll near Regensburg, and Bibliotheca Lindesiana morocco booklabel.