Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University.

  • Yale University Library
Date:
1913
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRINTED BOOKS 1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14 August, 1462. [Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagina- tion.] Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17—Esther iv. 4. Fol. 204b, col. 1 (red) : explicit liber iudith secundum ieronimum. Incipit prologus in librum bester. Col. 2 (red) : Explicit prologws. Ineip. liber heater. Hain *3050. Pellechet 2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pi. 74. De Ricci 79. Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1 supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals. Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16% X 11% in. The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers ’ names and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer—and Schoeffer when he carried on the business alone—rarely failed to add to anything large enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of 1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the date, and con- tinued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in language and differ only in the printers’ use of contractions and capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: “This present work by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters
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