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BIBLE, in Latin. With additions by Menardus Monachus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 6 August 1479. Royal 2° (392 x 278mm). Collation [1 12 2-22 10 23-24 6 (1/1r blank, 1/1v table, 1/2r prologues to Genesis, 1/5r Genesis); 25-36 10 37-38 6 (25/1r Proverbs); 39-41 10 42-43 8 44-48 10 (39/1r prologue to the Gospels, 39/1v Matthew, 48/10v colophon); 49 6 (Menardus)]. 468 leaves. 49-53 lines and headline, double column, printed marginalia in Gospels (39/2v-43/8v). Types: 4:160G (headlines and headings), 3:110 . G (text). Opening 14-line initial illuminated by a contemporary south-German artist in blue with white and mauve modelling on a burnished gold ground with punch-dotted decoration, within fictive frame alternating green, red and mauve, central gold baguette with trefoil terminal above and spiky acanthus extensions below, most 5-line initials in parti-coloured red and blue with green and mauve penwork infill and flourishes, 3-line initials alternately blue and red, red capital strokes. (First leaf laid down on the recto side, upper half of fol. 14/7 supplied from another copy, its carefully attached lower half supplied from a copy of another Koberger edition, occasional worming, mostly marginal, neat marginal tears in 4 lvs., a few small stains.) 19th-century light brown-stained pigskin, sides tooled in blind with a dentelle border, two brass fore-edge clasps, marbled edges (rebacked, preserving original backstrip, some wear at corner). Provenance : Glogau, Silesia [now Glogów Malopolski], cathedral chapter library (1679 inscription on first text-page, Ecclesiae Collegiatae Glogoviae maioris, Catalogo inscriptus Anno 1679 ) -- J. Bradford Pengelly, 1964 (fly-leaf inscription) -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's, 17 April 2000, lot 54). Fifth Koberger edition of St. Jerome's Vulgate Text of the Old and New Testaments, the fourth with Menardus Monachus' notice on the books of the Bible. HC 3072*; BMC II, 417 (IC.7192); BSB-Ink. B-435; CIBN B-392; GW 4239; Goff B-564.