Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyter[um] de omnibus diuine historie libris incipit

Publication/Creation:

[Strassburg] : [Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg], [not after 1480]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyter[um] de omnibus diuine historie libris incipit

Uniform Title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1480.

Series Titles:

Pitts Theology Library. Pitts Theology Library Incunabula Collection.

Variant Titles:

Epistola beati Hieronymi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus divinae historiae libris incipit
Biblia Latina cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis aliorumque et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis

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Additional Author/Creators:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849, commentator
Anselm, of Laon, -1117, commentator
Rusch, Adolph, printer
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, publisher
Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, 1805-1888, fomer owner
Rugby School, former owner

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Bible--Commentaries

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Biblia latina with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis. Contents: Part I: Genesis-Ruth, preceeded by Hieronymus. [Letter addressed to] Paulinus presbiter, incipit "[F]Rater ambrosius tua mihi munuscula perfere[n]s: detulit simul [et] suauissimas lit=/teras", a1r-a2v, and Preface, a3r; Part II: 1 Samuel-Psalms; Part III: Proverbs-2 Maccabees; Part IV: New Testament. For further content details, see Bod-inc B-314.

Summary:

This is the first printed edition of the Glossa Ordinaria, the text of the Latin Vulgate with the standard commentary attributed to the 9th century Benedictine monk Walfrid Strabp, but composed in the late 11th and early 12 century by Anselm of Laon, Ralph of Laon and Gilbert of Auxerre.

Language:

Latin

Physical Type/Description:

4 volumes (1,211 unnumbered leaves) ; 46 cm (folio)

General Note:

Ascribed to Amerbach by A. Hartmann in Amerbach-korrespondenz (1942), I, 2 n. 2. The printing, however, seems to have been done by Rusch at Strassburg with types borrowed from Amerbach: see F. Geldner, "Amerbach-Studien", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 23 (1982), cols 684-88.
GW dates shortly after 23 September 1481, but manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Cambridge University Library Inc.0.A.2.4[95] (Oates 124) are dated 1480.
"The earliest Latin Bible printed with 'glosses'": Darlow & Moule, note after 6083.
Biblia latina with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis. On the authorship of the Glossa Ordinaria see B. Smalley, The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, ed. 3, Oxford, 1983, pp. x, 56-60.
For variants see BN cat. des incun. B-427.
Printed in 4 parts; text in two columns with biblical text typographically distinguished from surrounding Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses.
Printed running titles.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: Part I: a¹⁰ 9xb⁸ 5xd⁸ d⁶ d¹⁰, a⁸ 9xd⁸ 3xb⁸ 2xb⁶; Part II: a⁸ 14xc⁸ c¹⁰ 3xh⁸ c⁶ h⁶ h⁸ 2xh⁶ 2xc⁸ 2xc⁶ c⁸ c⁶ 10xe⁸ e¹⁰ e⁸ ; Part III: 5xb⁸ b⁶ 2xb⁸ b¹⁰ 11xg⁸ 2xg⁶ g¹⁰ 4xd⁸ d⁶ 2xe⁶ 2xa⁸ 5xc⁸ 2xc⁶ a⁸ d⁸ 3xa⁸; Part IV: 12xf⁸ f⁶ f¹⁰⁻¹ (f9 cancelled) b⁸ b⁶ b¹⁰ 8xa⁸ 2xa⁶ a⁸ a⁶ a⁸ b⁸ c⁸ 4xa⁸ a¹⁰. Last two leaves blank.
The quire signatures, in multiple sequences of the first seven letters of the alphabet, are perhaps early press figures: see BM 15th cent., I, 92.
Pitts Theology Library copy has volumes 1, 2 and 4.
Inscribed red and blue initials and richly decorated initial letters at the beginning of biblical books.

Ownership and Custodial History:

Inscriptions dated 1851 and 1857 by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, an English collector from Rugby, Warwickshire. After his death, the work was owned by the Rugby School Library. A presentation letter by Matthew Bloxam to the Rugby School is attached to the recto of the front flyleaf.

Binding Note:

Bound in contemporary bind-stamped calf over wooden boards.

Citation/Reference Note:

USTC 740091
BM 15th cent., I, 92
BN cat. des incun., B-427
Bod-inc, B-314
BSB-Ink, B-442
Goff, B607
GW, 4282 (with digital facsimiles)
Hain-Copinger, 3173*
ISTC, ib00607000
Oates, 124

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937258919202486

OCLC Number:

889313860

Barcode:

300000449264
300000449266
300000449262