Original incunabula leaf from the Bible in Latin (Biblia Latina) with commentary by Nicolas de Lyra and printed by J. Froben and J. Petri in Basel, December 1, 1498. Reference: Goff #B-609; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke #4284 ; Darlow and Moule #6085 (note); Hain #3172. Printed in black ink with hand-illuminated letters in red and/or blue. (290 x 203 mm – 11 ½ x 8’’)
This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letters. The text begins Exodus 30: 34 – 31:18: “Galbanum boni…” (Galbanum of sweet savor, and the clearest frankincense…And the Lord spoke to Moses saying: thou shall say to them: See that thou keep my Sabbath: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctify you. Keep you my Sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it shall be put to death…Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the Sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. …For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work. And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God).
The central text is surrounded by Nicolaus de Lyra’s famous commentary. “This work, which was used by Luther, and influenced some of his writings” was first published with the biblical text in 1481.
Shipped unmatted
