[Biblia latina]

Description

Signatures: a-h¹⁰ i-l¹² m-t¹⁰ v¹⁴ x-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ aa-gg¹⁰ hh⁸ ii-ll¹⁰ mm¹² nn-pp¹⁰ qq¹² A¹⁰ B-C¹².


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on qq12v reads: Biblia impressa Venetijs opera atq[ue] impe[n]sa Theodorici de Reynsburch [et] Reynaldi de Nouimagio Theutonicor[um] ac socior[um].M.cccc.lxxviij.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Printed running titles, with a few mistakes.


Printed in two columns, Interpretationes in three columns.


First and last leaves, a1 and C12, are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00556000.


Indexed in: Goff B556; HC 3070; GfT 1851; Pell 2298; CIBN B-389; Jammes B-8; Parguez 185; Polain(B) 650; IBE 1014; IGI 1653; Sajó-Soltész 622; IBP 1002; IDL 825; IJL 69; Mendes 201, 202; Voull(B) 3822; Sallander 2094; Madsen 672; Oates 1779, 1780; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 351; Sheppard 3569; Pr 4431; BMC V 254; BSB-Ink B-428; GW 4231.

Features

There are annotations in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, to the Book of Psalms.


Major intial on a2r decorated in blue with red pen ornamentation extending down the inner margin.


Other major initials decorated in a variety of colours.


Initials, capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.


Wanting the blank first and last leaves.


Bindings


Nineteenth-century binding of full dark olive goatskin over pasteboard by Riviere whose name is printed at the bottom left corner of the front pastedown. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets inside which is a design of repeated lyre motifs. The board edges are blind-tooled with a single fillet and the turn-ins with double fillets. The spine has six raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second and third panels respectively are the words Biblia Latina and Venetiis 1478. The other panels are decorated with blind-tooled quatrefoil ornaments. The pastedowns are of parchment. The book has red and gilt edges. Watermark of a scales within a circle. Size: 310 x 216. Leaf size: 299 x 192.

Provenance

Written in pencil manuscript in the hand of W.G. Thorpe on the front pastedown: Very fine copy of this edition. The Psalter is noted as in the English prayer-book and "evensong" written to each day in a 16th century hand - it must therefore have been in England at that time. Riviere says he bound it for Mr Willoughby of Bedford Square abt 1850.


Autograph of W.G Thorpe on the front pastedown. William George Thorpe (d. 1903) was Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple.


Written in black ink manuscript on a paper label on the front pastedown: Biblia Sacra Latina. Venetiis, T. de Reynsburch et R. de Novimagio 1478. The Psalter has been marked in a XVIth century hand, according to the Book of Common Prayer and Even-song written to each day. The Vol. must therefore have been in England at that time. Bound by Rivière, about 1850 for Mr Willoughby of Bedford Sqr. London. See note of first board by W. G. T. Purchased at sale of Library of W. G. Thorpe, F.G.S. F.R.G.S. of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, 8th April 1879.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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