A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455.

Alternate Title:

Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible; Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (1450-1455)

Contributor:

Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468 (printer); Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466 (printer)

Name:

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940

Date:

1921

Language:

English

Provenance:

Morris, Effingham Buckley, 1856-1937 (donor) (inscription) (copy 2)

Publisher:

Gabriel Wells

Relation:

Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): copy 1: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g44js5k

Subject:

Gutenberg Bible; Printing -- Specimens -- Incunabula; Printing; Incunabula

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

incunabula (books); books

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages; 41 cm + [1] leaf ([2] pages; 39 cm (folio))

Related Place:

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.; Germany -- Mainz.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

The 42-line or Gutenberg Bible was printed in two parts in Mainz by Johann Gutenberg and Johannes Fust, ca. 1455. Cf. ISTC. "Sheets were seen by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini some time before his letter of 12 Mar. 1455 (E. Meuthen in Gb Jb 1982, pp. 108-18)."--ISTC.; Royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [k]10r: 42 lines to a full column; area of text: 288 x 195 mm.; col. width: 87 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.; "For single leaves see Goff (Noble Fragment leaves), P. Needham in BSA 79 (1985) pp. 362-69 and E.M. White in Gb Jb 2002 pp. 19-36"--ISTC.; "These preliminary pages [i.e. Newton's essay] were printed at the shop of William Edwin Rudge, New York"--T.p. verso. Designed by Bruce Rogers.; Title in red and black.; Copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by T. Edward Ross, with his bookplate affixed to front pastedown.; Penn Libraries copy 2 contains leaf [G]3 (v. 2, leaf [297]), with text from Acts 20-21. Leaf size: 388 x 279 mm. Rubrication: initial supplied in blue and capital strokes in red; headline and chapter number in alternating red and blue letters. Bull's head watermark.; Copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1922 by Effingham B. Morris, with ms. gift inscription ("Presented to The University of Pennsylvania Jany. 4th 1922 for preservation and use by students in the Library by Effingham B. Morris (a member of the Board of Trustees of the University from 1911 to 1921)") at foot of title leaf.; Penn Libraries copy 2: left board detached.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Folio Inc B-526 copy 2

Collection:

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)