Incipit epistola sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinu[m] presbyteru[m] de omnib[us] diuin[a]e histori[a]e libris. Capitulum I.
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
Amerbach, Johannes,1441?-1513,printer.
Qinsenboll, Sebastian, frater, vicariusformer owner.StEdNL
Kloster Reichenau,724-1757,former owner.StEdNL
J. Carss & Co.,binder.StEdNL
[Basel : Johann Amerbach],
M.CCCC.LXXIX [1479]
Title from first lines of text on recto of leaf a2
Printer's name and place of publication from ISTC.
Imprint date from colophon following New Testament.
Signatures: a-y¹⁰ A-T¹⁰ U¹² X¹⁰ 1-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸.
With an initial blank leaf.
Some copies include an additional 34 leaves at the end, with Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.
Includes on leaves 531-538 a list of liturgical epistles and gospels.
This is apparently "the earliest in a series of corrected Latin Bibles, which claim for themselves - apparently with justice - a superiority above all contemporary editions. They are known as the 'Fontibus ex Græcis' editions, from the opening words of the Latin distichs found in them [on leaf 530 verso in this ed.]" (Darlow & Moule).
Initials supplied in red. Rubricated.
With extensive marginal annotations.
Bibliographical notes on blue paper pasted to front free endpaper.
Darlow & Moule
Goff
ISTC
HC
Pellechet,
BMC
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription within initial at head of recto of leaf a1: Monasterij Augiae Divitis. Ink inscription at foot of recto of leaf a1: Ex libris fr[atr]is Sebastiani Qinsenboll[?] Monachi Augiae Diuitis et vicarij praepositurae in Schinen. Bought by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
19th-century blind and gilt stamped leather with blind rolled board edges, blind rolled turn-ins and gilt edges. Binder's ticket on front pastedown: J. Carss and Co. Bookbinders. 31 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Microfiche.
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Switzerland Basel.