Bible. Latin
Biblia latina (cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering).
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus for] Octavianus Scotus, August 8, 1489
folio: 10 by 14.5" (355 x 240mm.)
298 leaves (of 299,without initial blank leaf),
double column,
77-78 lines of commentary, historiated colored woodcut initial at start of text,
small colored armorial at foot of first page,
woodcut illustrations (including full page), modern binding of half leather over bevelled wooden boards, retaining original front paper endleaf containing early manuscript notes about the book, slight damp-staining and paper repairs to lower corner of some of the leaves, final leaf somewhat stained, a few small wormholes
Comprising Genesis to IV Kings - one of the first printed bibles to employ a series of woodcut illustrations, attributed to the Master of the Pico Pliny, who had previously illustrated bibles by hand
(Lilian Armstrong, "The hand-illumination of Venetian bibles in the incunable period" in Incuabula and their readers, London, 2003, pp.109-113).
Before this, printers had left space for hand-illlumination which was not generally supplied.
PROVENANCE:
arms at foot of first leaf, two birds facing each other on a red ground above quarters of gold and blue; purchased from Libreria Gozzini, Florence
Sotheby's auction, Milan

3.8


Reserve: $8,330.00

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