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[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
[Bible], Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.

[Bible]

Biblia Germanica, 17 February 1483. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger.
The famous illustrated incunable Bible by Koberger, one of the most beautiful Bibles produced in the 15th century

Koberger´s famous and influential illustrated Bible, with hand-coloured woodcuts and initials, a fabulous publication containing 109 large woodcuts, and the first printed in Nuremberg. This edition is also known as the ninth edition of the Bible in German, one of the most important illustrated incunabular Bible editions. This edition influenced, amongst others, Durer´s Apocalypse, also published by Koberger. The succeeding five editions of the German Bible depend textually on this Koberger edition.
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Two volumes bound in one, royal folio (405 x 278mm). 584 (of 586 leaves, without one divisional blank and final blank in volume 2); 109 woodcuts from 108 blocks, all but one [f. 494v] coloured by a later hand, many initials in volume 1 rubricated, others supplied in colours, 2 illuminated initials [on ff. 5r and 296r] on a burnished gold ground in colours with floral and leafy extensions. Modern binding in 15th century style of cream pigskin-backed bevelled wooden boards by J. C. Sheehan of Santa Fe [New Mexico] dated 1978, metal clasps and catches, many early leather index tabs preserved. Occasional light thumb-soiling, light scattered spotting, occasional tears not affecting text]and slight loss from detached tabs, some minor dampstaining.


Provenance: occasional early marginal annotations in ink – Benedictine monastery of St Georgenberg, near Schwatz, Tyrol (inscribed at head of first text leaf in volume 1 'Monastery montis S. Georgij 1654').


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