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A post incunable leaf - the First Epistle to the Corinthians c1504--5

A post incunable leaf - the First Epistle to the Corinthians c1504--5

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ANONYMOUS. Post incunable Leaf from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, with extensive scholastic commentary. [Basel, c.1504–1505].

 

Large folio leaf (350 × 240 mm), printed in double columns in gothic type with marginal and interlinear glosses, headed “Epistole prime ad Corinthios”; verso with chapter V and continuous commentary. On laid paper with visible chain-lines. Minor edge wear, 2 or 3 pinholes and light toning, but text complete and crisp.

 

From an early sixteenth-century Latin Bible most likely printed in Basel, of the type produced for clerical use. Accompanied by a contemporary (1970s) bookseller’s note from Great Russell Street Books, London, attributing the leaf to a Basel printing of 1504–5 and situating it within the first half-century of European typography.

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