Biblia integra, summata, distincta, sup[er]eme[n]data, vtriusq[ue] testame[n]ti [con]corda[n]tijs illustrata.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1491.
Imprint:[Basel] : [Per Joha[n]nem Froben de Hammelburck], [27 June 1491]
Description:[496] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Language:Latin
Subject:Bible -- Translations into Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Bible.
Incunabula -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 1491.
Annotations (Provenance)
Early works.
Translations.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago's copy forms part of the American Bible Union Collection.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2781304
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Varying Form of Title:Biblia integra, summata, distincta, superemendata, vtriusque testamenti concordantijs illustrata.
Other authors / contributors:Froben, Johann, -1527, printer.
Provenance:Large pen-flourished initial leaf [6] recto with text "Carmeli flos."
Former owner's inscription: Hieronymi Vairlenij Chr[ist]i sacerdotis [possibly: Hieronymus Vairlenius (1511-approximately 1589)].
Bound in: [6] leaves at beginning and [13] leaves at end with contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands.
Former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands throughout, including title page and blank leaves [5], [495], and [496]; includes some liturgical texts for the use of the Carmelite order.
Notes:Imprint from colophon, leaf [456] verso: Explicita est Biblia p[re]sens Basilee su[m]ma lucubratione: per Joha[n]nem Froben de Hammelburck. Anno nonagesimo-primo supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] die vero vicesimaseptima Junij.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-y⁸ A-Z⁸ 1-10⁸ [superscript chi]11⁴ 11⁸ ²A⁸-E⁸; [$4 (-a1) signed].
Chiefly printed in 2 columns; 56 lines; Haebler types 86 (title, head-lines, headings), 62a (verses and some headings in 1st gathering), 44 (text); capital spaces and guide letters.
Rubricated; large pen-flourished initial, leaf [6] recto (blue initial with red pen-flourishing and green highlights, foliate design in blue, gold, red and green ink extends into bottom margin); medium pen-flourished initials (blue initials with red pen-flourishing and green highlights or purple pen-flourishing, red initials with purple pen-flourishing), small pen-flourished initials (red with purple pen-flourishing).
Leaves [5], [495], and [496] blank.
"Interpretationes nominu[m] Hebraico[rum]"--Leaves [457]recto-[493] verso.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ib00592000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, entry IA. 37873
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 7755
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 3107*
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entry 2836
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 04269

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