Biblia latina.
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
Schöffer, Peter,approximately 1425-approximately 1502,printer.
Edwards, James,1756-1816,associated name.StEdNL
Steuart, David,1747-1824,former owner.StEdNL
In vrbe Magu[n]tina [Mainz] : Petrum Schoiffer,
[23 February 1472]
Imprint from colophon of volume 2.
Goff dates 24 Feb. from the colophon 'In vigilia Mathie.' According to Hillard, before the reform of 1582 the feast of St. Matthias was always observed on 24 Feb. (afterwards falling on 25 Feb. in leap years)--ISTC.
[Vol. 1] leaf [1]a: Jncip[it] ep[isto]'a s[an]c[t]i iheronimi ad paulinu[m] p[re]sbiteru[m] de om[n]nib[us] diuine historie libris. [F]Rater ambrosius tua michi munuscula p[re]ferens ...
[Vol. 1], leaf [242]b: ... Alleluia. Explicit psalteriu[m] [device].
[Vol. 2], leaf [1]a: Epistola sancti ieronimi presbite[r]i ad chromatiu[m] [et] eliodoru[m] ep[iscop]os de libris salomonis. [J]Vngat epistola quos iu[n]git sacerdotiu[m]: immo carta no[n] diuidat: quos chr[ist]i nectit amor ...
Colophon, [v. 2], leaf [239]a: P[raese]ns hoc opus p[rae]clarissimu[m]. Alma in vrbe / magu[n]tina ... Artificiosa quadam adinuenco[n]e imprime[n]di seu caracteriza[n]di absq[ue] ulla calami exarac[i]one sic effigiatu[m] et ad eusebiam dei industrie e[t] [con]su[m]matu[m] p[er] Petru[m] schoiffer de gernszhe[m]. Anno d[omi]nice incarnac[i]o[n]is Millesimoq[ua]dringe[n]tesimo septuagesimosecu[n]do. In vigilia Mathie ap[osto]li. [device].
This edition follows that of 1462 page for page and line for line, even the faulty imposition of the last quire is reproduced, though in leaves 71-80 in vol. i the corrected copies of the 1462 edition are followed--BM 15th cent.
Divided into two vols. by Schoeffer's device following the words Explicit psalteriu[m] on leaf 242b.
Gothic type (Proctor 98); 2 columns, 48 lines.
The titles to the books and prologues and to the separate psalms are printed in red. One- to eight-line spaces left throughout for initials.
Printer's device in red at end of each volume.
Signatures: [a-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-z¹⁰ A-B⁸]; [a-n¹⁰ o¹² p-z¹⁰ A⁷].
Signatures from GW.
Rubricated. Initials supplied in red or blue, larger initials in both. First large initial in each volume includes green and brown. Book headings supplied in red.
With brief marginal annotations in an apparently 16th-century German hand on a few leaves.
Loosely inserted at the end of volume 2 is a letter dated London 29 November 1798 to David Steuart from James Edwards reporting that a 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible is to be sold by Leigh & Sotheby early next month. The letter is fully transcribed in Hillyard, B. David Steuart Esquire: an Edinburgh collector (Edinburgh, 1993).
Goff
ISTC
GW
BM 15th cent.,
Hain-Copinger
Pellechet
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain
IDL
IBP
Oates
Proctor
BSB-Ink
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Microfiche.
Bought by the Advocates Library in 1810 from David Steuart for 50 guineas.
18th-century blue morocco with geometric gilt tooling on front and back boards, spine with six raised bands forming seven gilt tooled compartments, two of which contain title and imprint, single fillet gilt rolled board edges, large turn-ins with double fillet gilt rolled borders enclosing blind rolled borders, silk gilt tooled pastedowns, gilt edges and silk endpapers.
Bible
Germany Mainz.