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[Latin Bible] 1462

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single leaf only, 48 lines, double column, headline in manuscript in red and blue, 2 2-line manuscript initials, one in red with brown ink florishes, the other in blue with red ink flourishes, 2 chapter headings (XV and XVI) in red, ruled and lined in brown ink, wide margins, 2 small worm-traces ion lower margin but well away from text block, clean and crisp, [Goff B529; GKW 4204; Hain-Copinger 3050; Pellechet 228; Oates 22; Proctor 791; D&M 6080; BMC I, 22], folio, Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, [14 August, 1462].

***A leaf from the first dated Bible. This leaf from Esdras, chapters XV and XVI..

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