Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 3,750
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia cum Postillis Nicolai de Lyra.] With commentary by Guillelmus Brito, Paulus Burgensis, and Matthias Doering. [265] (of [1571]) leaves: 1 Kings-Job only (D1-gG10). Gothic type. Folio, 312x215 mm, disbound; marginal dampstaining and soiling at beginning and end, contents otherwise generally clean. [Venice: [Johannes Herbort for] Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson, and partners, 31 July 1481]
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First edition of the Vulgate to include the Postilla by Nicolaus de Lyra (circa 1270-1349), the most popular Bible commentary of the later Middle Ages, originally printed separately in 1471. Hain-Copinger 3164; GW 4286; BMC V, 301; ISTC ib00611000; Sarton III, 397-400.