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BIBLE, Latin . With the Postilla litteralis of Nicolaus de Lyra, the additions by Paulus Burgensis and responses to the latter by Matthias Doering, and the commentary of Guillelmus Brito on the Prologues of Jerome. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger [1486-] 1487. Part 3 only (of 4). Chancery 2 o (305 x 211 mm). Collation: AA-GG 1 0 HH 1 2; II-MM 1 0 NN 1 2 OO 8; PP-TT 1 0 UU 6 XX 6 YY 1 0 ZZ 1 0 AAA-FFF 1 0 GGG 8 HHH 8 III-MMM 1 0 NNN 8 (AA1r Isaiah, NN8r explicit Maccabees, NNN8v blank). 348 leaves. Double column with commentary surround. 72 lines of commentary. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 7:92(83)G (text). 16 woodcuts, of which 3 full-page, including woodcut captions. Spaces for initials. Rubricated with blue and red Lombard initials, many with reserved decoration, initials at beginnings of books with red pen-flourishing, paragraph marks in blue or red, capital strokes and underlines in red. (Worming in first and last few quires, a few sheets browned, clean tear to EE4 entering text.) Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, sides panelled with multiple fillets, central saltire panel with repeated circular agnus dei and peacock tools, borders with the same tools and small diamond-shaped fleurs-de-lys and small rosettes, the tools not in Kyriss or Schwenke Schunke-Sammlung , remains of two brass fore-edge catches, later paper labels on spine, effaced fore-edge title, vellum pastedowns and one quire liner from a 15th-century noted breviary with German neumes on five staves (very worn, loss to leather at board edges and spine, lacking clasps), preserving a few deckle edges. Provenance : Frankfurt, Carmelites, Brother Philippus Albertus de Nussia (inscription on front pastedown, Liber conventus francfordensis carmelitici ex procuratione fratris philippi alberti de nussia , 19th-century monastic inkstamp of same convent on first page). Part III of the fourth edition, second Koberger edition, of the Bible with this apparatus. Nicolaus de Lyra's vast commentary was regarded as the definitive biblical commentary from the late Middle Ages until the Reformation, and was frequently reprinted, independently, in parts, and with the biblical text, throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. The woodcuts of this edition and of Koberger's previous edition (1485) are reduced copies of the cuts of his 1481 edition of the complete commentary (Goff N-135). This volume includes the famous cut of the vision of Ezechiel and plans of the temple and of Jerusalem. The binding of this copy is decorated with tools that also appear on a Sammelband of two Gerson editions (Goff G-189 and Strassburg 1502) from the Donaueschingen library, of unidentified monastic provenance (Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1994, lot 132, binding tools 28-29). HC 3167*; BMC II, 431 (IB.7384-84a); BSB-Ink. B-459; CIBN B-430; GW 4289; Schreiber 3473; Goff B-614.