Biblia. [Latin]
With the Postilla of Nicolaus de Lyra, additions by Guilelmus Brito and Paulus de Sancta Maria, and replications by Matthias Doering.
Add: Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra perfidiam Judaeorum.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1485.
Fol. Part I: [110 212 3-810 9-108 11-1410 156 168 17-2810 2912 30-3110 324 33-3810 39-406 41-4410 4512 46-4810 496]. [468] leaves (1/1 blank). Part II: [1-510 68 710 88 9-2510 26-278 28-3710 388]. [370] leaves. Part III: [1-710 812 9-1210 1312 148 15-1610 178 182 19-2010 21-226 23-3010 31-328 33-3610 378]. [348] leaves. Part IV: [1-1110 128 13-1610 178 186 19-2210 2312 2410 258 26-2910 3012 31-3710 388 396 408]. [386] leaves (1/1, 40/7-8 blank).
Woodcuts (28 in part I and 16 in part III).
ISTC ib00613000; GW 4288; Goff B613; BMC II 427 (IB. 7323); Bod-inc B-319; BSB-Ink B-453.
Parts I-III undated; part IV dated 7 May 1485.
| GIP number: | B58 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bo1-d.1, Bo1-d.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Parts I and III only, bound in two volumes (but see B59/2 and B66 for parts II and IV from other Koberger editions, used to complete the set). |
| Note: | In part III bifolia 13/2.11 and 13/3.10 are transposed. |
| Provenance: | Alexander(?) Petreius (fl. 1651): marginal comment on the gloss on 2/7r (f. 17r) of part I “et [e]mendatiora sunt: sic habet editio impressa Parisijs per Johan. Preuel anno 1523: quam editione[m] legi et habeo Al. petreius ann. 1651”. Johannes Kolb (17th century): inscription “Liber Joh[ann]is Kolb ...” on 49/6v (f. 468v) of part I. S.D. (17th century): initials “S D” stamped in gilt on both covers of both volumes - the same initials are stamped as a set on part IV of the Library’s copy of Biblia latina, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, [1486-]87 (B59/2, shelfmark Bo1-d.4). University of Glasgow: source unknown; mid 18th-century University Library shelfmarks “BX f2 n1” and “BX f2 n3” (both scored through) on 1/2r of part I and on 1/1r of part III respectively; shelfmarks “CE.2.6” and “CE.2.8” on University Library bookplates matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 17th-century calf; covers decorated with a triple fillet border in blind; initials “S D” in gilt on both covers of both volumes (see Provenance); evidence of two clasps in each volume (all now lost); sprinkled red-edged leaves; rebacked in 19th/20th century with oval stamp of Glasgow College Library added in gilt to spines. Size: 302 x 212 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 298 x 201 mm. |
| Annotations: | Part I: marginal annotations, nota marks and manicules in a 15th/16th-century hand in quires 1-4, very occasional marginal annotations thereafter. Part III: without annotations. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting parts II and IV; wanting the blank leaf 1/1 of part I and bifolium 13/1.2 of part III. |
