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BIBLIA LATINA.[Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, in part for Anton Koberger, not after 1480]. First edition Latin Bible with the Glossa Ordinaria, 4 volumes, a composite set, imperial folio, bindings vary, but with Hebrews bound at the end of the New Testament, and quires containing I Corinthians 8-15 reversed in binding with Romans XV-I Corinthians VII, with contemporary note in red directing the reader 8 leaves forward or back. 1210 (of 1211, without final blank) leaves. Initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, initial B opening Psalms in vol. II with a painted miniature of David playing the harp, illuminated in silver (oxidized) and gold, initials in vol. IV in red and blue, occasional light dampstaining, upper blank margin of first leaf cropped, damp affecting first and final upper corners of volume I without loss of text, small wormtracks in final quires of vol. II affecting some letters, small wormholes in vol. IV touching some letters. Not uniformly bound: vols. I, III in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, (lacking clasps), later spine labels and oval onlay with gilt arms of Marie-Augusta de Sulzbach; vol. II: contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vellum MS pastedowns and quire-guards, leather index tabs, traces of chain staple (darkened, somewhat worn, wormed); vol. IV in early 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards, roll-tooled (lacking clasps) (4)
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