April 12, 2024
1 Leaf 1483 Incunabula Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible Handpainted Blue and Red Ink
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First of all, this particular leaf of the 1483 Latin Bible has many bookworm holes in the paper, in fact there are so many th at I put a GREEN sheet underneath the 1483 leaf, so you can see all the bookworm holes and trails. This is amazing! A very large leaf in Black Letter (Gothic) type from a Latin Vulgate Bible published in Venice in 1483 by the printer, Johannes Herbort. It is outstanding edition of the Latin Bible, one of the Fontiubus ex Graecis editions, "a series of corrected Latin Bibles, which claim for themselves--apparently with justice--a superiority above all contemporary edition," according to Darlow and Moule, vol. II, p. 911. This is just twenty-eight years after Gutenberg's 1st 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. InLatin, 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 rubrication done all by a scribe's own hand in blue ink, red ink, and yellow ink; there are scores of marks, underlinings,
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