Biblia Latina

[Lyon: Jacques Maillet, 1490. Text in two columns, black letter, 48 lines per page, with manuscript initials and red and blue. Leaf a1 mounted, likely supplied, with manuscript title to style, silked on verso; a2 repaired at gutter. [520] ff. 1 vols. Folio. Twentieth century dark black half morocco and blue cloth sides. Light traces of rubbing, some old traces of damp in a few leaves. Very good plus. Text in two columns, black letter, 48 lines per page, with manuscript initials and red and blue. Leaf a1 mounted, likely supplied, with manuscript title to style, silked on verso; a2 repaired at gutter. [520] ff. 1 vols. Folio. Nice example of this Lyon Bible, the first and only one printed by Maillet, who was active from 1483 into the early years of the sixteenth century. There is a printed calendar after the New Testament, headed Epistole et Evangelia per anni circulum. Stephanus Pariseti is identified as the editor in the colophon at the end of the Interpretation of Hebrew Names.
Only two other copies located in North America: Harvard (lacking several leaves) and Huntington(title leaf in facsimile). The copy bought by the Huntington from Goldschmidt in 1926 is the last copy recorded in the trade.
RARE. ISTC ib00589000; Goff B589; OCLC: 81098054; GW 4266; Copinger, W. Incunabula Biblica, 85; Pellechet 2328; Delaveau & Hillard 743