Iustitia[m] et propugnator su[m] ad saluandum. Quare ergo rubru[m] est indumentum tuu[m] et uestimenta tua sicut calca[n]tium in torculari. Torcular calcaui solus et de gentibus no[n] est uir mecu[m].

Preservation copy archived by the National Library of New Zealand in TIFF.

Known as the Gutenberg Bible, the Mazarine Bible and the 42-line Bible. Lacks signatures. Double columns, 42 lines to a column. Printed on watermarked paper.

Isaiah 63:1-63:3.

Goff B526

GW 4201

BMC 1 17

ISTC ib00526000

This leaf was originally part of a bound volume consisting of a large fragment of the second part of the Gutenberg Bible. The volume was discovered in September 1828 by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach in a farmhouse in the village of Olewig, near Trier. Wyttenberg transferred the volume to the Municipal Library in Trier, but it was eventually sold to a private collector in 1932. Subsequent owners included Dr Maximilian Wiernik, who sold it via Sotheby’s (London) in 1937 to Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., of Queensland, Maryland. The leaves were subsequently dismantled and put up for sale as individual items, with the remaining 248 leaves (including leaf 69) sold by Scribner’s in 1953. Cf. Editio Princeps / Eric Marshall White.

Electronic reproduction of Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. The Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book leaf has slight foxing, with a strip of reinforced material mounted on gutter edge. Two rubricated initials, ms brown ink 16th century inscriptions: "Isaiah" and "69". Purchased by the ATL from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2021.

Electronic reproduction: Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2021