Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 19,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
[BIBLIA LATINA.] [467] (of [468]) leaves; lacks the initial blank. Gothic type. Rubricated, and with manuscript running heads in red. Folio, 381x271 mm, old pigskin-backed manuscript vellum over pasteboard, worn; contents lightly dampwrinkled, opening leaves dampstained with repaired wormholes in blank lower inner corners, light dampstaining in lower margins through remainder of volume with traces of mold, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamps on first 2 leaves, strips of paper pasted across blank lower margin of last 3 leaves. Armorial bookplate of the Augustinian monastery of St. Nicola at Passau, Bavaria; linen folding case. (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 July 1477)

Additional Details

Second Koberger Vulgate after the first of 1475. Hain 3065; GW 4227; BMC II, 414; ISTC ib00552000.