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GUTENBERG, Johann. – BIBLIA LATINA. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455.]
A leaf from the Gutenberg bible, the first substantial book printed with moveable type, from the Book of Psalms, containing the end of Psalm 43 through the beginning of Psalm 48.
One leaf, 400 x 290mm. 42 lines, double column, Gothic type. 2-line Lombard initials supplied in red and blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red and blue (portion of lower margin renewed; a few small repairs to outer margin; some soiling). Presented in A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Black gilt-stamped morocco (wear to spine ends); publisher’s slipcase (worn, with some loss). BMC I, 17 (IC.55); BSB-Ink. B-408; Chalmers Disbound and Dispersed 18; CIBN B-361; DeRicci/Mayence 53 (=78); GW 4201; Hain *3031; Needham P18; Norman, pp.253-258; Pr 56; Goff B-526. Provenance: Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794), wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria; Mannheim, Hofbibliothek – Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders) – Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810-1873, and by descent until sold) – Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin – purchased by Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments.
A leaf from the Gutenberg bible, the first substantial book printed with moveable type, from the Book of Psalms, containing the end of Psalm 43 through the beginning of Psalm 48.
One leaf, 400 x 290mm. 42 lines, double column, Gothic type. 2-line Lombard initials supplied in red and blue, headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters, capital strokes in red and blue (portion of lower margin renewed; a few small repairs to outer margin; some soiling). Presented in A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Black gilt-stamped morocco (wear to spine ends); publisher’s slipcase (worn, with some loss). BMC I, 17 (IC.55); BSB-Ink. B-408; Chalmers Disbound and Dispersed 18; CIBN B-361; DeRicci/Mayence 53 (=78); GW 4201; Hain *3031; Needham P18; Norman, pp.253-258; Pr 56; Goff B-526. Provenance: Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794), wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria; Mannheim, Hofbibliothek – Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders) – Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810-1873, and by descent until sold) – Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin – purchased by Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, many of them accompanied by Newton's essay, as here, and in larger fragments.