[Biblia Latina]
Contributors: Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860, former owner
Publisher: Heinrich Eggestein
Published: 1469
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 632
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction); Theodore Parker Collection.
Work titles: Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1469
Notes: Title and imprint from ISTC.

Text begins (a1r): [F]Rater ambrosi[us] tua michi munuscula p[er]ferens. detulit simul et suauissimas l[itte]ras ...

Signatures (from Bod-Inc): [a-p℗£́ʻ q́ı r-z℗£́ʻ A-H℗£́ʻ I℗£́ʻ(I10+1); K-Z℗£́ʻ aa-ll℗£́ʻ mḿı nn-qq℗£́ʻ rŕı sśœ(ss6+1)].

All leaves unsigned.

Royal folio; text in double columns, 41 lines per column.

Spaces left for initials and rubrics.

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, B-243

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4208

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry B-533

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, vol. I, page 66

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ib00533000

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy imperfect: comprised of the first 319 leaves only. Halfbound in 19th-century brown morocco and black pebbled cloth. The spine is ruled in blind and stamped in gilt. All text block edges are stained blue. The gift plate of Theodore Parker, dated Oct. 31, 1864, is present on the front pastedown. The embossed stamp of the BPL is present on the first leaf. In-text capitals, two- and six-line initials, head lines, and rubrics are rubricated in red. Early marginalia, in various hands, is present throughout.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is the first of two items bound together in a single volume. The second item is Nicolaus de Hanapis' Auctoritates utriusque Testamenti (Strassbourg: Eggestein, ca. 1466) (ISTC no. in00103100). This item is cataloged separately.