Biblia Latina

[Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 1476. Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Text in two columns, 57 lines per page, rubricated, with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black (some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green); some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. (bound without first and last blanks). Copiously annotated (chiefly in O.T.) in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio. Original pigskin, stamped in blind, vellum manuscript waste supports used at inner hinges, last four leaves strengthened at gutter. Corners and bosses perished, edgeworn, some worming entering text at end; upper joint cracked and first two gatherings loosened. Vestiges of marginal tabs; a few paper. A bit rough, very good. Second Sensenschmidt and Frisner Bible. Text in two columns, 57 lines per page, rubricated, with many manuscript initials in red and blue and black (some descenders with leafy flourishes and occasional touches of green); some initial spaces unaccomplished. 392 ff. (bound without first and last blanks). Copiously annotated (chiefly in O.T.) in several early Germanic Latin hands; a lengthy gloss to Acts 18 is dated at end 1525. 1 vols. Folio. The second Bible printed by Sensenschmidt and Frisner at Nuremberg, dated 1476 at the end of the Notitia by Menardus, with generous margins and some idiosyncratic flourishes and decorations to the manuscript. At the foot of the first text leaf the manuscript ownership note of a brotherhood of monks in Gmünd. The second gathering includes a leaf where text on the verso is printed only in 44 lines, and an inserted half leaf stub printed one side only in one column.
Four stubs of blanks are visible at the end of Esdra but the text is complete, resuming with Tobias.
This copy bound without the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum as is often the case; that work appears frequently with Koberger editions of this period and “should perhaps be regarded as a separate work”.
And excellent and unsophisticated copy. ISTC ib00546000 (four other locations in N. America); GW 4221; Goff B546; Delaveau & Hillard 696. Provenance: W. A. Copinger (bookplate); General Theological Seminary, gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Dean Augustus Hoffman (bookplates and blindstamps)