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Book/Printed MaterialRationale divinorum officiorum Printed by Gutenberg associates Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, with in five years of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. Six large initials (leaves [1a], [1b], [14b], [20a], [86a], [140a]) printed in red and blue, numerous initials and headlines printed in red. The color registration of the printed initials is remarkable.- Contributor: Fust, Johannes - Durand, Guillaume - La Vallière, Louis César De Labaume Leblanc De - Golitsyn, Michel Aleksandrovitsch - Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Schöffer, Peter
- Date: 1459
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Bible in Latin]
Byname: Biblia latina | Text begins, vol. 1: Incipit epistola beati Iheronimi presbiteri ad Paulinu[m] de omnibus diuine historie libris Capl'm primum | Text begins, vol. 2: Incipit Prefacio b[ea]ti Iheronimi presbiteri In libro ysaie prophete Ms. codexes. Latin. Title and description taken from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 1, p. 41-61, by Svato Schutzner. Very regular littera textualis formata, one hand throughout. Ink black to grayish black. Two columns, 60 lines. Decoration: initials, mostly unfinished, and some borders. Several historiated initials ... probably by more than…- Contributor: Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Bernhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Mainzer Dom
- Date: 1452
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