518 Yr Old Incunable Latin Bible Leaf Old Testament Genesis 43-44 Joseph Judah

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518 Yr Old Incunable Latin Bible Leaf Old Testament Genesis 43-44 Joseph Judah:
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This is a leaf of incunabulafrom a Biblica Latina Cum Postillis, Book of Genesis Chapters43 & 44 . Anton Koberger printed it on September 6, 1497 atNuremberg. The folio size heavy paper leaf measures 335 x 230mm. in totality and contains 43-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. In addition Chapter 43 was miss-numberedas 42. The versocontains 45-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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