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Title(s):

Biblia latina.

Additional Title(s):

Commonly known as: Gutenberg Bible

Also known as: 42-line Bible

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454.

Published/Created:
[Mainz] : [Johann Gutenberg], [ca. 1454]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 41 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A B 9
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0001
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (ZZi 56 Copy 1, vol. 1)
View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (ZZi 56 Copy 1, vol. 2)
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1, Copy 2, and Copy 3: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.
BAC Folio A B 9: Imperfect: Consists of 8 pages containing Pastoral Epistles; Thessalonians, 2nd, 8-18; Philemon 1-10. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
BAC Folio A B 9: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921, and broken into leaves by him.
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0001: Imperfect: a single leaf with the end of the book of Jeremiah and the beginning of the book of Baruch. Rubricated, with two large initials, one illuminated with gold. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout, including large initials in color, with floral marginal decoration, at the beginning of each book.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Imperfect: Leaves [318]-[319] of v.2, blank, wanting. Some leaves are damp stained. Leaf [317] of v.2 mutilated and repaired. All edges trimmed, resulting in loss of some illumination.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Provenance: Bookplate, stamp, inscription and library label: Bibliotheca Monasterii Mellicencis. Call no. of library label: P.884a and P.884b. Sold by Melk to Edward Goldstone, 1925. Purchased at Anderson Galleries, New York, by Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, 15 February 1926. Purchased from Rosenbach by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness. Gift of Mrs. Harkness in memory of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Binding: 18th-century calf.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated paper leaf of Ezekiel XXX,11-XXXII,13. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of Dr. Fred Murphy.
BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 3: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated vellum bifolium with leaves from Ecclesiastes and Wisdom.
DIV 939095: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Nehemiah X,31-XII,28. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
DIV 939095: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921.
ELIZ +39: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Micah VII (incomplete); Nahum I-III; Habakkuk I (incomplete). Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
ELIZ +39: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of R.B. Adam, January 1922.
MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of 4 Kings XIII,12-XV,6. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921.
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4201
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 17 (IC.55)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-526
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00526000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3031
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 56
Yale University Library Gazette 1 (June 1926): [1-13]
Subject Terms:
Adam, R. B. (Robert Borthwick), 1863-1940 -- Ownership.
Incunabula in Yale Library -- Single leaves.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria, 1724-1799 -- Ownership.
Murphy, Fred -- Ownership.
Sabin, Frank M. -- Ownership.
Stift Melk -- Bookplate.
Stift Melk -- Inscription.
Stift Melk -- Stamp.
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946 -- Ownership.
Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.
Contributors:
Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468, printer.
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