Biblia que[m] retinet sequit[ur] nunc metricus ordo.
1486
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Title
Biblia que[m] retinet sequit[ur] nunc metricus ordo.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1486.
Created/published
[Speyer] : [Peter Drach], 1486.
Description
[1,164] p. ; 29 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Yates, Christopher C., 1778?-1848, former owner.
Wheeler, Charles V. (Charles Van Cise), 1866-1941 former owner.
Drach, Peter, -1504, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Wheeler, Charles V. (Charles Van Cise), 1866-1941 former owner.
Drach, Peter, -1504, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Title from distich in colophon (leaf X6v).
Place of publication and publisher statement from Goff, date of publication from colophon (leaf X6v).
Signatures: a-2c⁸, 2d⁶, 2e-2z⁸, A-E⁸, F-G¹⁰, H-T⁸, V-X⁶, Y⁸, 2A-2E⁸ (r3 signed q3).
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
The 1st leaf is blank.
Place of publication and publisher statement from Goff, date of publication from colophon (leaf X6v).
Signatures: a-2c⁸, 2d⁶, 2e-2z⁸, A-E⁸, F-G¹⁰, H-T⁸, V-X⁶, Y⁸, 2A-2E⁸ (r3 signed q3).
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
The 1st leaf is blank.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-582
BM 15th cent., II, p. 495 (IB.8578) and I, p. 119 (note)
GW 4259
BM 15th cent., II, p. 495 (IB.8578) and I, p. 119 (note)
GW 4259
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Speyer.
Item Details
Call number
INC B516
Folger-specific note
Folger copy: leaf a1, blank, lacking; edges have been trimmed, affecting manuscript notes. Large initial on leaf a2r, in blue with white modeling, within a half red, half green frame, with gilt ground bearing impression of bird and flower design; initials at beginning of a few of the Books, in interlocking red and blue paint; smaller initials provided in red or blue, alternating irregularly, and capital strokes in red throughout the book; a few paragraph marks; sign of a wheel at foot of leaf a5r in same red paint. Early manuscript notes and commentary in margins, underlining and brackets mostly in brown ink; manuscript corrections and interlineary notes in text; manuscript correction of signature on leaves r3 and O2 of headline on leaf Q3, in brown ink. Bookstamp at foot of last leaf and on leaf g3, with a hand lighting a candle and motto "Plus de lumière"; bookplates of Christopher C. Yates and of Nell Rose Wheeler and Charles Van Cise Wheeler (no. 331 in the Walpole Galleries sale catalog of Charles Van Cise Wheeler's library, July 1919); purchased in 1919. Later pigskin German binding blind tooled with floral and medallion borders, central panel on front cover depicting the Virgin, God and Christ; 2 brass clasps; 2 paper spine labels, one on top of the other, the top one bearing inscription in red paint and brown ink, reading "S. Biblia Lat. cum nom: Hebr. interp."; date of printing inscribed in lower pt. of spine; too fragile to be microfilmed.