1497 Incunable Bible Leaf 4th Book of Kings Chap 24 Large Hand-Colored Letters

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1497 Incunable Bible Leaf 4th Book of Kings Chap 24 Large Hand-Colored Letters:
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This is a leaf of incunabulafrom a Biblica Latina Cum Postillis, Fourth Book of Kings Chapter24 (2 Kings JJV). Anton Koberger printed it on September 6, 1497at Nuremberg. The folio size heavy paper leaf measures 335 x 230mm. in totality and contains 44-lines of gothic type (14:130G,15:91G, 19:71G, 21:74G) surrounded by 71 lines of commentary bythe noted theologian Nicholas de Lyra (b. 1270 d.1340) printeddouble column in Latin. This particular Bible comes from the firstof a four-volume set (Genesis through Chronicles). It containedthe usual introduction from St. Jerome but the most interestingaspect was pages 169 - 184 were omitted because they were notpresent at the time of binding. This skipped from Leviticus Chapter23 to Numbers chapter 22. The versocontains 54-lines of the same type and layout. (Hain 3171, Proctor2115, Goff B-619, Oates 1046/7 GW 4294) This leaf contains minorstaining.

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