GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer ]. BIBLE, Latin . [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. Royal folio, 359 x 237 mm. (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) . Single leaf: volume II, fol. 9 (1/9), from Proverbs, chapters xxiv:5-xxvi:28. Type: 1:146(138)G. Double column. 42 lines. Rubricated: flourished Lombard initials in red. Headline and foliation on recto in brown ink in a later fifteenth-century hand. No visible watermark. Housed in a mylar mat within quarter morocco cloth folding case, red morocco gilt lettering-piece on upper cover, inner margin extended, skilfully repaired horizontal tear through middle of text block (presumably from previous folding), touching approximately 6 letters but with no loss, 3 short repaired tears to blank lower and fore-margins; unexamined out of mat . H 3031*; GW 4021; Goff B-526. Censuses : Needham P48; De Ricci 15b; Schwenke 14. A leaf from the now widely dispersed Trier City Library copy. Originally part of the library of the Monastery of St. Maximin in the Rhineland, the copy was lost following the French occupation in 1794. In 1828 63 leaves of vol. I and 261 leaves of vol. II were discovered in a farmhouse in Olewig, near Trier, by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach, the founder of the Trier Stadtsbibliothek. The fragment of volume I was acquired by the Counts von Seilern in the late nineteenth century and is still in the possession of that family. Vol. II remained in the Trier Library until this century, when the city of Trier sold it. It appeared at Sotheby's on 21 June 1937, where it was purchased by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach for Arthur Houghton, Jr. After acquiring the Schuckburgh copy in 1953, Houghton sold the Trier volume to Scribner's Sons of New York, who broke it up. The largest fragment went to George A. Poole, Jr. of Chicago, whose collection was later acquired by the Lilly Library, other fragments went to Southern Methodist University and to the Viscount von Seilern, and most of the remaining leaves, the present included, were sold individually. (Cf. Don Cleveland Norman, The 500th Anniversary Pictorial Census of the Gutenberg Bible , Chicago 1961, pp. 112-113). Provenance : Monastery of St. Maximin, Trier -- Stadtsbibliothek, Trier (anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 21 June 1937) -- Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. -- With Charles Scribner's Sons -- The present owner.
GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer ]. BIBLE, Latin . [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust 1455]. Royal folio, 359 x 237 mm. (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.) . Single leaf: volume II, fol. 9 (1/9), from Proverbs, chapters xxiv:5-xxvi:28. Type: 1:146(138)G. Double column. 42 lines. Rubricated: flourished Lombard initials in red. Headline and foliation on recto in brown ink in a later fifteenth-century hand. No visible watermark. Housed in a mylar mat within quarter morocco cloth folding case, red morocco gilt lettering-piece on upper cover, inner margin extended, skilfully repaired horizontal tear through middle of text block (presumably from previous folding), touching approximately 6 letters but with no loss, 3 short repaired tears to blank lower and fore-margins; unexamined out of mat . H 3031*; GW 4021; Goff B-526. Censuses : Needham P48; De Ricci 15b; Schwenke 14. A leaf from the now widely dispersed Trier City Library copy. Originally part of the library of the Monastery of St. Maximin in the Rhineland, the copy was lost following the French occupation in 1794. In 1828 63 leaves of vol. I and 261 leaves of vol. II were discovered in a farmhouse in Olewig, near Trier, by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach, the founder of the Trier Stadtsbibliothek. The fragment of volume I was acquired by the Counts von Seilern in the late nineteenth century and is still in the possession of that family. Vol. II remained in the Trier Library until this century, when the city of Trier sold it. It appeared at Sotheby's on 21 June 1937, where it was purchased by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach for Arthur Houghton, Jr. After acquiring the Schuckburgh copy in 1953, Houghton sold the Trier volume to Scribner's Sons of New York, who broke it up. The largest fragment went to George A. Poole, Jr. of Chicago, whose collection was later acquired by the Lilly Library, other fragments went to Southern Methodist University and to the Viscount von Seilern, and most of the remaining leaves, the present included, were sold individually. (Cf. Don Cleveland Norman, The 500th Anniversary Pictorial Census of the Gutenberg Bible , Chicago 1961, pp. 112-113). Provenance : Monastery of St. Maximin, Trier -- Stadtsbibliothek, Trier (anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 21 June 1937) -- Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. -- With Charles Scribner's Sons -- The present owner.
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