tib00620000

Text-inc Id:

tib00620000

Bod-inc Id:

B-340

Headings:

Biblia [Czech] Bible Pražská

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. cf. Pref. no. 1.
2. a6v [Gn–II Par.]
3. z2v [OrMan.]
4. z3r [I–II Esr.] II Esr called book of Nehemiah in this edition.
5. A5r [III Esr.] III Esr entitled II Esr in this edition.
6. B2v [Tb–II Mcc.]
7. aa1r Hieronymus: [Prologue to the Four Gospels.] cf. Pref. no. 33.
8. aa1v [Mt–Io.]
9. ff3r [Rm–Hbr.]
10. ii8r [Act–Apc].
11. mm8v [Colophon.]
12. [*1r] [Index of readings from epistles and gospels for Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays].
13. [*7r] [Index of readings from epistles and gospels for saints' days].

Imprint:

Prague: [Printer of the 1488 Bible (Johann Kamp?)] for Johann Pytlik, Johann? Severin, Johann von Störchen, and Matthias vom weissen Löwen, Aug. 1488. Folio.

Collation:

a–g¹⁰ h⁸ i–z A¹⁰ B⁸ C–Z AA BB¹⁰ CC⁸ aa–ll¹⁰ mm [*⁸]. Gathering [*] numbered but not signed.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00620000 GW 4323; HC 3161; Goff B‑620; BMC III 808; Pr 9468; M. Bošnjak, A Study of Slavic Incunabula (Zagreb, 1968), 8; BSB‑Ink B‑501; CIBN B‑455; Sheppard 2582.

Copies:

1. B-340(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Leaves a2-4 are mounted and cropped; leaf c10 is bound before b10, and in its place a duplicate leaf from a shorter copy has been inserted. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; marbled pastedowns and edges. Size: 314 × 223 × 102 mm. Size of leaf: 302 × 190 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations. On a2r a nine-line initial ‘B' is supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration; other two- to nine-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red, blue or interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlining supplied in red. Provenance: Jaroméř, Bohemia, monastery of S. Laurentius; inscription on a5r in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Conventus D. V. Laureti Jaromeritzii'. Laurentius Xaverius Menhart (fl. 1674). Jacobus Franciscus Chizerowsky(?) (fl. 1674); inscription on a6v: ‘Dono acceptus à Domino Laurentio Xaverio Menhart Cive Trebiczense 1674. Ex libris P. Jacobi Francisci Chizerowsky(?)' capel. Trebiczen.’ Purchased for £17. 10. 0, from Asher & Co.; see letter from Albert Cohn for Asher & Co., to Bandinel, in Library Bills (1851-5), no. 328; the invoice in Library Bills (1856-8), no. 84, item 1; also Macray 361 and Books Purchased (1856), 9. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Boh. 1488 c.1. SHELFMARK: Auct. V 3.14.