Biblia Latina.
Publisher: Printer of the 42-line Bible (Johann Gutenberg)
Published: 1454
Place of publication: [Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 643
Other titles: Gutenberg Bible
Notes: LC copy on vellum. Leaf [192a] presents numerous variants from the facsim. ed. of the Berlin copy (Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1913-14). Leaves [11]-[32a], [139]-[158] and [486a] are of the second printing. Chapter headings on leaves [1a], [4a], [5a], [12a] and [129b] printed in red; other chapter headings and chapter numbering supplied by hand in red; initial-strokes supplied in red on leaves [1]-[130] and on a few other scattered leaves; headlines in alternating red and blue; initials in red or blue, some of the larger ones in red aand blue, a few with ornaments extending to the margin. Signatures in ms., generally cut off, catchword on leaf [125b]. Bound in 3 v.: 16th cent. blind stamped white pigskin; one of the rolls used dated 1560. Formerly in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasius in the Black Forest (with its bookplate in each vol.), after 1809 in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul in Carinthia; acquired by LC through Otto H.F. Vollbehr in 1930.
Goff B-526
Hain 3031
GW 4201
Schwenke, P. Johannes Gutenbergs 42-zeilige Bibel, no. 12 (p. 10) and p. 23, 25, 41, 48
Table of contents: title: [1] Liber Genesis-Liber IV Esdrae.; title: [2] Liber Tobiae-Prophetia Ezechielis.; title: [3] Prophetia Danielis-Apocalypsis Beati Ioannis Apostoli.