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Bible. Old Testament Jeremiah XII-XIV, 1-19. Latin. Vulgate. 1455.

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Title

Bible. Old Testament Jeremiah XII-XIV, 1-19. Latin. Vulgate. 1455.
[Biblia Latina]

Publisher

[Printer of the 42-line Bible (Johann Gutenberg & Peter Schoeffer?)]

Date

[between 1454 and 1455?, not after August 1456]

Description

Leaf from an imperfect copy of the "Gutenberg Bible," separated and sold in: A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455 : with a bibliographical essay / by A. Edward Newton. New York : Gabriel Wells, 1921.
Latin text in Black letter ("Gothic") type, 2 columns, on paper.
On verso of t.p.: These preliminary pages were printed at the shop of William Edwin Rudge, New York.
The leaf contains part of Jeremiah XII, all of XIII, and XIV, 1-19.
Consists of a leaf printed on both sides, from the original edition of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz, ca. 1454-1455.
Goff B-526 (1 leaf)

Relation

Identifier

Z241 .B58 1455
OCLC/WorldCat Number: 16171674

Subject

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454.
Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468.
Incunabula -- Germany -- Mainz.

Contributor

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940.
Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468, printer.
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946, publisher.
Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931, printer.

Format

1 leaf (2 unnumbered pages) ; 39 cm (folio) + [16] pages ; 41 cm

Language

Latin

Coverage

[Mainz]