[Biblia Latina]
Contributors: Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860, former owner
Publisher: Johann Mentelin
Published: 1460
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 427
Work titles: Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1460
Notes: Title and imprint from ISTC.

Signatures (from BM XVth century): [a-i℗£℗ø k℗£́ʻ l-r℗£℗ø s℗£℗ǿð℗£ A-R℗£℗ø Śı]

This edition of the Bible is commonly known in English as Mentelin's Latin Bible.  The exact date of printing is not known, though it is generally given as ca. 1460. This date is based on a copy in the Universitatsbibliothek of Freiburg im Breisgau, which has rubrication dates "1460" at the end of volume 1, and "1461" at the end of volume 2. According to Paul Needham, the text is copied from the Gutenberg Bible. See Needham, Paul. "The Text of the Gutenberg Bible", 1987, p. 55.

Text in two columns of 49 lines.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, vol. I, page 51

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry B528

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 4203

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ib00528000

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy contains only the second volume from a two-volume set that once comprised the entirety of the text of Mentelin's Latin Bible.  The volume begins at leaf [217] and is missing leaves [338], [409], [410], and [425]-[427]. The volume is bound in early blind-tooled calf over wooden boards and is extensively repaired with modern brown morocco. The gift plate of Theodore Parker is present on the front pastedown. Two-line initials are rubricated in red throughout, with capitals, incipits, and headlines likewise rubricated. Large initials are hand-colored in red, blue, green and purple. Early marginalia is present on several leaves and early corrections are present throughout. Most of the gatherings are signed in an early hand on either their first or last leaves, and some early manuscript catchwords are present. Many page repairs are present, including some comprised of early paper manuscript waste.