1492 BIBLE INCUNABULA BIBLIA LATINA antique STRASSBURG Nicolas Lyra commentaries
BIBLIA LATINA(Cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering.) Volume 2 (of 4) Strassburg, Joh. Gruninger ; 1492Small folio: 9 by 12 1/4" Gothic type, 2 columns, 66 lines (text surrounded by commentary), occasional (7 pp.) with painted-in initials 370 leaves (740 pages)Original hand tooled pigskin over wooden boardsSpine later replaced with brown leather, worm-eaten, Pigskin at the back cover is damaged, lacks clasps- GW 4292. Proctor 462. - Contains the books Esra, Nehemiah, Thobias, Judith, Esther, Job, Psalms and Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Canticorum, Sapientie, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach). From the Collection Per Hierta (1864-1924) with his signature and date 1910 on the front inside cover Worm holes more heavily at the beginning and end, lacks lower margin of the first and last leavesOccasional early marginaliaFront pastedown with woodcut bookplate "Christophorus Hos, IV