A leaf from the Biblia Latina printed by Adolph Rusch, cir. 1479.
Contributors: Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849.; Rusch, Adolph. printer.; Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-.; Rubin, Eleanor. donor.
Publisher: Jake Zeitlin
Published: 1930
Place of publication: [Los Angeles?
Language: lat
Subjects: Incunabula -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Biblia Latina cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis.
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Proverbs X, 25-XII, 11. Latin. Vulgate. 1479.
Notes: Title from portfolio.

The leaf contains Book of Proverbs X, 25-XII, 11.

"This leaf is from the Biblia Latina printed by Adolph Rusch in Strassburg for Anton Koberger about the year 1479, it having been completed soon after September 1481 ... This Bible is in the Gothic which he obtained from Johann Amerbach ... There are 1211 leaves in the complete work. This leaf is from an imperfect copy of the third volume ... The technical description of the book is as follows: Biblia Latina cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis (Strassburg, Adolph Rusch of Ingweiler for Ant. Koberger of Nurnberg.) ... With holiday greetings, Jake Zeitlin, December 1930."

Leaf contains Biblical text in double columns in middle of page, surrounded on each side by commentary. Printed on both sides. Initial painted in blue on recto and highly ornate initial painted in red on verso; paragraph marks in red and blue.

BM 15th cent., I, p. 92 (IC.813)

Burns Library copy: gift of Eleanor Rubin.

Burns Library copy: bookplate: Gift of Eleanor Rubin in honor of Daniel Berrigan, S.J.