Biblia. [Latin]
[Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1479.
Fol. a-y10 A-T10 U12 X-Y10 1-810 9-108. [538] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC ib00561000; GW 4236; Goff B561; BMC III 745 (IB. 37256); Bod-inc B-270; CIBN B-394; BSB-Ink B-433.
Without the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum sometimes found with copies of this edition, which are in fact from the 1481 edition (Goff B571).
Quire Y omitted in the GW and Bod-inc collations.
| GIP number: | B51 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Dq-c.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 9/8v (f. 530v), col. 2, line 21, without “nūc” - cf. GW 4236 Anm. |
| Provenance: | Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss (1787-1854), physician, Frankfurt: book-label overlaid with University Library bookplate; Kloss’s annotations on front pastedown “Editio prima bibliarum: Fontibus ex Graecis” and his reference to Panzer; lot 716 in Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss of Franckfort a.M. … (London: Sotheby, 1835). John Petheram (1807-1858), antiquary, publisher and bookseller in London: sold book to William Euing – see below. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: acquired 1 Sept. 1847; Euing’s acquisition date, price code and abbreviated name of his supplier in pencil on front pastedown “1-9-47 cb/ Peth”; an early Euing inventory number “No. 2” and his shelfmark “VI.y.4” in pencil on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Switzerland, 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; covers decorated with intersecting fillets to form three concentric rectangles, which are in turn decorated with floral rolls, and a roll with biblical(?) figures (all heavily worn); heavily worn tooling in spine compartments; remains of two brass clasps; catch plates on front board; faded early title in ink on front cover beginning ‘biblia ...’; 19th-century endpapers with the watermark ‘H. Oser. in Basel’. Size: 315 × 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 295 x 207 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent 16th and 17th-century marginal annotations in Latin in several hands, mainly in brown ink but occasionally in dull red ink; occasional underlining; partially erased 19th-century pencil number “144” on front pastedown; date in pencil on rear pastedown “7/5/[18]35” with price “2/2/-” and description “[Basileae J. de Amerbach] 1479 Ed. Prima Fontibus ex Graecis, with Marginal Notes” and a 19th-century pencil price code(?) “soo/-”; 19th-century pencil annotation “33/b” on 10/8v (f. 538v). |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout; initial capital letter of running headings stroked in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting y8-10, A1-3. |
