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.
Mosman, Hugh,active 1734,binder.StEdNL
[Basel : Johann Amerbach],
M.CCCC.LXXXI. [1481]
Title from first lines of text on leaf [2]r; date from colophon, fol. [530]v.
Imprint from ISTC.
The Holy Bible in Latin, including the O.T. Apocrypha. Text of Genesis begins on fol. a5r.
With prologues of St. Jerome.
Prologus in Bibliam is followed by Prologus in Pentateucum.
A page-for-page reprint of Amerbach's edition of 1479 (IB.37256); the Interpretationes are a duplicate of those in that edition. In this year Amerbach presented two Bibles to the Basel Charterhouse--BM 15th cent.
Masch lists this as the 3rd of ten genuine "Fontibus ex Graecis" editions, and one of 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 Graecis" editions, from the opening words of the Latin distichs found in them, which run as follows: "Fontibus ex Graecis Hebraeorum quoque libris / Emendata satis et decorata simul / Biblia sum praesens superos ego testor et astra / Est impressa nec in orbe mihi similis / Singula quaeque loca cu[m] concordantibus extant. / Orthographia simul quam bene pressa manet."
Signatures: a-y¹⁰ A-T¹⁰ V¹² X-Y¹⁰ 1-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12-13¹².
Text in double columns, three in the Interpretationes; 47 lines to a column.
Capital spaces, with guide-letters.
First and last leaves are blank.
Solid paragraph form, without verse numbers. Title centered at top of rectos, except where a new book begins on verso. Marginal references in New Testament. Index of Hebrew names.
Initials supplied in red and blue or in red. Paragraph marks in red.
With marginal annotations.
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Goff
GW
Proctor
Hain-Copinger,
Pellechet
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain
BSB-Ink
Bod. Lib. 15th cent.,
IGI
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Acquired by the Advocates Library not after 1734.
Bound by Hugh Mosman in 1734 in leather with gilt rolled board edges.
Bible
Switzerland Basel.