An original incunabula leaf from Biblia Latina, printed in Venice, Italy 1480 by Francis Renner of Heilbronn.
Size: 208 x 160mm – 8.12 x 6.25 inches – Text block: 6.5 x 4.5 inches
Printed in double columns of 51 lines on fine laid paper and embellished with three multi-line hand illuminated initials alternating in blue and red. Numerous versal initials heightened with red.
This leaf includes the complete text of the Ten Commandments as recounted in the book of Deuteronomy.
Line one continues Deuteronomy 4:39 – 7:19: “Scito ergo…” (Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other…I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing…Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain…Observe the day of the Sabbath…Honor thy father and mother…Thou shalt not kill. Neither shalt thou commit adultery. And thou shalt not steal. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife…Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength…).
Bibliographical references: Goff B-681; GKW 4241.
A remarkable leaf with highly important text from a very early bible printed only 25 years after the Gutenberg Bible! The Ten Commandments, according to passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were a code of moral principles divinely revealed to Moses by God and engraved on two stone tablets.
Shipped unmatted
