Date
Location
Venice, Italy
Media format
Extent
Language
Size
Reference IDs
BM 15th cent.: V, p. 522-523 (IA.23978)
Folger bibliographic ID: 89776
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries: B-603
Folger call number: INC B537
Folger holdings ID: 92047
Notes
Bibliographic format
quarto
General notes
With the table of Gabriello Bruno Imprint from colophon (leaf 2E4r) Signatures: ([1]-4)⁸, (5-8)⁸, a¹⁰, [2nd]a-s⁸, [2nd]s-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-Z⁸, 2a-2g⁸, 2h¹⁰, 2A-2D⁸, 2E⁴ ([1st]a2 unsigned) Printed in 2 columns Woodcut initials and also a few capital spaces with guide letters Large woodcuts depicting the 6 days of Creation on leaf [1st]a10v, and Solomon asleep on leaf B1r, and 71 woodcut illustrations used in Ragazzo's Malermi Bible. Cf. Sander 995 Includes register
Item information about Folger INC B537
Lacks all leaves between leaf V1 and leaf 2A; conjugate leaves a5-a6 misbound after [2nd]a4; some mold in the first and last gatherings. Manuscript notes with numerous markings, brackets, and underlining, in several hands (one of them underlining words in text as well as corresponding marginal notes with corrections). Several ownership inscriptions on title page, one of them illegible, another one in early handwriting, partially legible, reading "Hui[us] possessor[?...?] ẽ Edwardus Broke[?]"; several autographs of George Bickford on t.p. and throughout the book (also his initials G.B.). In a later English calf binding, blind tooled with floral and sawtooth design borders, and remains of 2 ties; rebacked; in a tailored box. Purchased in 1928
Also known as
Alternate titles: Biblia latina
Related names
former owner: Broke, Edward
former owner: Bickford, George, -1795
printer: Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518