Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diuin[ae] histori[ae] libris incipit. [F]Rater ambrosius tua mihi munuscula perfere[n]s : detulit simul [et] suauissimas litteras.

Imprint from ISTC.

"Pr[ae]fatio sancti Hieronymi presbyteri in pentateucum incipit"--Leaf [3r]. "Glosa ordinaria incipit. [C]Vm omnes diuinos libros legimus" --Leaf [3v]. "[I]N pri[n]cipio creauit"--Leaf [5r].

"Gratia domini nostri ihesu christi cum omnibus vobis Amen. (gloss) Gratia domini Consu[m]matio apostoli in verba christi"--Leaf [1209v].

Commonly thought to have been printed by Rusch with types borrowed from Johann Amerbach. Some authorities write that Amerbach printed this edition himself at Basel.

Text printed in gothic type in 2 columns of interlineated text surround by a glossary on paper with watermarks including an eight-petalled flower (similar to Briquet 6605), crescent with cross (similar to Briquet 5227), and bulls head.

Signed, but signatures do not reflect the order of the quires ; they may represent the seven or eight presses at which the work proceeded. Leaves unnumbered.

Leaf [4r]. 337 x 200 mm; 73 lines of commentary; gothic 180? (head-lines and beginning of chapters), gothic 106 (text), gothic 92 (commentary), gothic 68 (interlineated commentary) ; initial spaces occupying 3,4,5,6 or 9 lines.

ISTC (RLIN), ib00607000

BM 15th cent., I, 92 (IC. 813(variant))

Goff, B-607

Hain, 3173

GW, 4282

Proctor, 299

Oates, 124

Polain, 682, 682A

Copinger, W.A. Incunabula Biblica, 44

initial F, leaf a1 -- historiated initial, leaf a5 Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2007 Alexander Turnbull Library

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy only includes first 254 leaves (Genesis to Ruth), and lacks leaf [139] (possibly blank). Extra wove paper leaf inserted prior to first leaf of text (a handcoloured lithographic printing of the beginning of Genesis). Binding: sheepskin? over 8 mm. wooden boards to a panel design, with two brass clasps at fore-edge ; upper and lower covers have outer edge and central panel dyed black, with gold and blind roll-tooling outlining intermediate concentric panels, gold-tooled central lozenge; spine gold tooled over raised bands, blind tooled compartments, blind tooled turn-ins, paste endpapers, red text edges, inside covers strengthened with green library tape ; binder's stamp on front turn-in "Bound by C.H. Dunford Newport. I.W." [Isle of Wight]. Spine title: Holy Bible.

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Provenance: rubricated throughout with initials and paragraph marks alternately red and blue and initial strokes in red, some initials extending into margins ; initials at beginning of each book in both red and blue or decorated with penwork ; historiated initial in gold and colours at the beginning of Genesis. Early ownership inscription in brown ink on first flyleaf includes names Hinrico Rurimu[n]dis and Wilhelmi de Breda; inscription in black ink underneath: "Ex auctione publica librarum Dn̄o Wedmar Coesfeldia, habita 1819. Mense Majo [?P.L.]" ; ownership inscription in brown ink on first leaf of text "Conventu Bambergensi." Pencil inscription on back flyleaf quoting C. Collmann's description in March 1887 of a perfect copy of this bible in the Library at Cheltham. Purchased from A. Clemas by the Bible Society of New Zealand in 1933. Newspaper clipping pasted onto front pastedown concerning acquisition of a 1480 Bible by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Deposited in the ATL on permanent loan from the Bible Society in New Zealand in 1978. First nine and last three leaves repaired at fore-edge ; worming affecting text in first two and last gatherings, and in margins only of third to sixth gatherings; minor soiling at beginning and end of text block. Acc. 343559.

Digital images available: initial F, leaf a1 -- historiated initial, leaf a5. Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.