PRINTED BOOKS


1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14
August, 1462.

[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter,
without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]

Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17--Esther iv. 4.

_Fol. 204^b, col. 1_ (red): expl_icit_ liber iudith secundu_m_
ieronimu_m_. Incipit p_r_ologus in libru_m_ hester. _Col. 2_ (red):
Explicit p_r_olog_us_. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet
2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74.
De Ricci 79.

Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1
supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals.
Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16-1/4 × 11-1/2 in.

The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names
and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the
books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer--and Schoeffer when he
carried on the business alone--rarely failed to add to anything large
enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their
fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of