Biblia Latina.
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
Herbort, Johann,-1484,printer.
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,former owner.StEdNL
National Galleries of Scotland,donor.StEdNL
[Venice] : Magistri Iohannis dicti Magni Herbort de Selgenstat Alemani qui salua o[mn]ium pace ausum illud affirmare ceteros facile omnes hac tempestate supereminet. Olympiadibus dominicis.,
anno v[er]o MCCCCLXXXIIII pridie Kalendas Maij [30 Apr. 1484]
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon.
The second Herbort edition of St. Jerome's Vulgate text.
This is one of the 'Fontibus ex Graecis' editions, so called from the opening words of the Latin verses found at the end of the Apocalypse. These editions were highly esteemed for their accuracy--Harper's cat.
Colophon: Fontibus ex Grecis Hebreo[rum] quoq[ue] libris ... Exactu[m] est inclyta in vrbe Venetiaru[m] sacrosanctu[m] Biblie volumen integerrimis expolitusq[ue] litteraru[m] caracteribus. Magistri Iohannis dicti Magni Herbort de Selgenstat Alemani qui salua o[mn]ium pace ausum illud affirmare ceteros facile omnes hac tempestate supereminet. Olympiadibus dominicis anno v[er]o MCCCCLXXXIIII pridie Kalendas Maij [30 Apr. 1484].
Signatures: a-b⁸ c¹² d-g⁸ 'hi'¹² k-t⁸ v¹² x-y⁸ z² A-N⁸ O⁶ P-Z⁸ ZZ¹²0 aa-dd⁸.
Signed in mixed arabic and roman numerals; 'hi' as one signature.
Printed in double columns, paragraph form, without verse nos. 56 lines to a column and head-line. Types: 140 G., 64 G. Title centered at top of page. "Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominu[m]" at end, printed in 3 columns. Capital spaces with guide-letters.
Initials supplied in red. Rubricated.
Manuscript list of chapters in 18th-century? hand on verso of endpaper preceding first leaf of text.
Manuscript annotations in early hand. Possible unidentified provenance on recto of a3 and verso of cc8.
ISTC
BM 15th cent.,
Hain
Copinger
Goff
Pellechet
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain
GW
BSB-Ink
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
IDL
IGI
IBP
Oates
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
"Biblia que[m] retinet sequit[ur] sic metricus ordo / Generat : exodus : leui : numen q[uoque] deutro.", 13 exameters [i.e. Walther, Initia, 7141], a1v; Hieronymus, [Letter addressed to] Paulinus presbiter, a2r-a3v; Biblia latina, a3v-ZZ11v, with books preceded by "prologi" or "argumenta", including Hieronymus, "Epistola ... ad Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia", P1r, registers to Gospels, and [Gilbertus Pictaviensis], "Prologus in apocalypsim", ZZ6v; Fontibus ex Grecis Hebreorum quoque libris, 3 distichs [i.e. Walther, Initia 6750], ZZ1v; colophon, ZZ11v; printer's register, ZZ12r; [Stephen Langton]. Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum, aa1r-dd8r. For detailed table of contents, see Bod-inc B-288.
Shelfmarks on front pastedown: 2=c,10 in ink and A:9:C/3686 in pencil. Black ink circular armorial stamp of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on verso of endpaper preceding first leaf of text. Bookplate of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on front pastedown with purple transfer stamp added. Transferred by authority of the Board of Trustees for the National Galleries of Scotland as a gift to the National Library 6 October 1949.
Mottled calf blind tooled with central rectangle with floral corner pieces on front and back boards. Modern reback.
Italy Venice.