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, [1486]-87.
Fol.  Part I: a¹⁰ b¹² c-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-o¹⁰ p⁶ q⁸ r-z¹⁰ ⁊¹⁰ aa-dd¹⁰ ee¹² ff-gg¹⁰ hh⁴ ii-oo¹⁰ pp-qq⁶ rr-vv¹⁰ xx¹² yy-zz¹⁰ ⁊⁊¹⁰ ↄↄ⁶.  [468] leaves (a1 blank).  Part II: A-E¹⁰ F⁸ G¹⁰ H⁸ I-Z¹⁰ Aa-Bb¹⁰ Cc-Dd⁸ Ee-Oo¹⁰ Pp⁸.  [370] leaves.  Part III: AA-GG¹⁰ HH¹² II-MM¹⁰ NN¹² OO⁸ PP-TT¹⁰ UU-XX⁶ YY-ZZ¹⁰ AAA-FFF¹⁰ GGG-HHH⁸ III-MMM¹⁰ NNN⁸.  [348] leaves.  Part IV: a-l¹⁰ m⁸ n-q¹⁰ r⁸ s⁶ t-y¹⁰ z¹² aa¹⁰ bb⁸ cc-ff¹⁰ gg¹² hh-oo¹⁰ pp⁸ qq-rr⁶.  [384] leaves (a1 blank).
Woodcuts (28 in part I and 16 in part IIII).
ISTC ib00614000;  GW 4289;  Goff B614;  BMC II 431 (IB. 7384);  Bod-inc B-320;  CIBN B-430;  BSB-Ink B-459.

Parts I-III [undated];  part IV dated 3 Dec. 1487.

Two copies held by the University of Glasgow

Copy 1

GIP number:	B59/1
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Bm9-d.11 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	Part I only.
Provenance:	Unidentified Franciscan house:  mutilated inscription beginning “liber fr[atru]m mi[n]oru[m] [...]” on a2r. University of Glasgow:  source unknown;  mid 18th-century University Library shelfmark “BD.4.5” (scored through) on a2r;  shelfmark “CE.2.10” on University Library book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791).
Binding:	Scotland, 19th-century calf;  binder’s ticket “Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow” on front pastedown;  pencil numbers “75/11” and “93/11” on a2r are probably binders’ job numbers;  pencil note on front free endpaper “rebound 1860”;  new pastedowns;  original late medieval parchment manuscript pastedowns preserved - the front pastedown is a single leaf containing an unidentified theological text in two columns, the rear pastedown is a bifolium containing the text of Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, Part III, ch. 14-16, 20-22.   Size:  318 x 222 mm.
Leaf size:	306 x 216 mm.
Annotations:	Numbering “1-7” in margins of a3r (referring to “prima”-“septima regula” of the text);  marginal annotation in a 16th-century hand on bb10r.
Decoration:	An eleven-line initial “H” on a2r is supplied in blue with reserved white;  similarly decorated large initials supplied in blue with reserved white on a3v, a4r, c1r;  smaller initials throughout supplied in plain blue or red;  the woodcuts are hand-coloured in pink, green, yellow, and red;  capital strokes supplied in red throughout.
Imperfections:	Wanting all of parts II-IV, and the blank leaf a1 of part I.

 

Copy 2

GIP number:	B59/2
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Bo1-d.4 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	Part IV only (but see B58 note).
Provenance:	S.D. (17th century):  initials “S D” stamped in gilt on both covers - the same initials are stamped as a set on parts I and III of the Library’s copy of Biblia latina, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1485 (B58, shelfmarks Bo1-d.1 and Bo1-d.3). A.B. (17th century):  initials “A.B.” in ink on a2r. University of Glasgow:  source unknown;  mid 18th-century University Library shelfmark “BX. f2. n4” (scored through) on a2r;  shelfmark “CE.2.9” on University Library book-plate 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;  evidence of two clasps (both now lost);  sprinkled red-edged leaves;  rebacked in 19th/20th century with oval stamp of Glasgow College Library added in gilt to spine and given new free endpapers (originals not preserved);  pencil number “710/9” on rr6v is probably the binder’s job number.   Size:  298 x 210 mm.
Leaf size:	293 x 197 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional marginal annotations and nota marks in a 16th-century hand;  unread (17th-century) code on rr6v.
Decoration:	Ten-line initial “Q” on a2r supplied in blue with reserved white and set on a square ground of brown pen-work decoration, which extends into the inner margin;  initials throughout supplied in dull red.
Imperfections:	Wanting all of parts I-III and the blank leaf a1 of part IV.