1497 Incunable Bible Leaf Exodus 32 Moses On The Mountain & Tale Of Golden Calf
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for a detailed view.This auction is for a leaf of incunabula from a Biblica Latina Cum Postillis. The leaf is from Second Kings Chapters 22-23. and tells the tale of Josiah..“Josiah” was the son of King Amon, whom the people made king of Judah after Amon’s assassination (639 B.C.). Josiah’s reign began when he was only eight years old and lasted 31 years, three decades of peace, prosperity, and reform. King Josiah devoted himself to pleasing God an...d reinstituting Israel’s observance of the Mosaic Law. The Bible focuses almost exclusively on Josiah’s spiritual reform, which climaxes in the eighteenth year of his reign with the discovery of the book of the law 621 B.C. Josiah died while engaging Pharaoh-necho II of Egypt in battle (in 609 B.C. at Megiddo Anton Koberger printed it on September 6, 1497at Nuremberg. The folio size heavy paper leaf measures 335 x 230mm. in totality and contains various lines of gothic type (14:130G, 15:91G, 19:71G, 21:74G) surrounded by 71 lines of commentary bythe noted theologian Nicholas de Lyra (b. 1270 d.1340) printeddouble column in Latin. This particular Bible comes from the firstof a four-volume set (Genesis through Chronicles). It containedthe usual introduction from St. Jerome but the most interestingaspect was pages 169 - 184 were omitted because they were notpresent at the time of binding. This skipped from Leviticus Chapter23 to Numbers chapter 22. The versocontains the same type and layout. (Hain 3171, Proctor 2115, GoffB-619, Oates 1046/7 GW 4294) This leaf contains minor staining.A Great Gift For Any Manuscript Collector We Now Accept PayPal! We Ship Worldwide. Please Contact Us For a Free Shipping Quote!
