1 Leaf 1480 Incunabula Latin Medieval Bible Handpainted Red Ink by Rubricator
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First of all, I must say that this 1480 leaf has three (3) hand-drawn red initial letters, and they clearly show the cracks in the red ink that is over 500 years old! This can be clearly seen in the 1st and 2nd scanned images. Amazing! A very large leaf in Black Letter (Gothic) type from a Latin Vulgate Bible published in Cologne in 1480 by the printer, Nicolaus Gotz or Goetz. This is just twenty-five years after Gutenberg's first Bible of 1455! By definition, an incunabulum (the singular of "incunabula") or "incunable" (French) or "inkunabel" (German) must be printed from 1455 to 1500. However, those books printed in the later 1480s and the 1490s, as well as the year 1500 (which is technically the last year of the 15th century), had more and more woodcut printed initials. In Latin, the term "incunabula" means "baby clothes" or "things of the cradle," and canrefer to the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything. This leaf has red rubrication marks all added by a scribe's own hand, and there are scores of red marks through the first letter of each verse, as well as the title listed at the top of each side of the leaf. The red color is strong and fresh-looking, on both sides of the leaf. Size of the sheet is about 8 1/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. The heading in Latin is "ECCLESIASTES," which means " The Book of Ecclesiastes.
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