Deuteronomy 8 - 9 Land Where Food Is Not Scarce 1497 Large Incunable Bible Leaf
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for a detailed view.This is a leaf of incunabulafrom a Biblica Latina Cum Postillis, Deuteronomy 8-9 "A land wherein you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass." 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!