BIBLIA LATINA. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. Folio, 392 x 288mm. (15 3/8 x 11 5/16 in.) . Single leaf: volume I, fol. 258 (26/9), from Esdras IV (Apocryphal), chapters xiv-xv. Type 1:146(138)G. Double column. 42 lines. Rubricated in red, headlines and chapter numeration in red and blue. Bull's head watermark. Minor marginal soiling . Tipped into a copy of A. Edward Newton, A Noble Fragment (New York 1921), folio, publisher's black morocco, spine and corners rubbed, slipcase (broken) . H 3031*; Goff B-526. Provenance : Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); Mannheim, Hofbibliothek; Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders); Robert Curzon Baron Zouche (1810-1873; and by descent until sold:) Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, as here, and in larger fragments.
BIBLIA LATINA. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. Folio, 392 x 288mm. (15 3/8 x 11 5/16 in.) . Single leaf: volume I, fol. 258 (26/9), from Esdras IV (Apocryphal), chapters xiv-xv. Type 1:146(138)G. Double column. 42 lines. Rubricated in red, headlines and chapter numeration in red and blue. Bull's head watermark. Minor marginal soiling . Tipped into a copy of A. Edward Newton, A Noble Fragment (New York 1921), folio, publisher's black morocco, spine and corners rubbed, slipcase (broken) . H 3031*; Goff B-526. Provenance : Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sulzbach (1721-1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); Mannheim, Hofbibliothek; Munich, Royal Library (their duplicate sale, 1832, sold for 350 guilders); Robert Curzon Baron Zouche (1810-1873; and by descent until sold:) Sotheby's 9 November 1920, lot 70, to Joseph Sabin; sold by him to Gabriel Wells, who broke up the copy, dispersing it in single leaves, as here, and in larger fragments.
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