Author: BIBLE IN LATIN; GUTENBERG, Johann; FUST, Johann; SCHOEFFER, Peter
Title: Biblia Latina
Description: Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455. A Relic of the Invention of Printing - A Single Paper Leaf from the Gutenberg bible The First Complete Book Printed with Movable Type [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. [Biblia Latina]. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. A Single Old Testament leaf (numbered in manuscript fol. 118) from the Gutenberg Bible, containing the text of Ezekiel 26:12 - 28:9. Folio (14 5/16 x 10 9/16 inches; 364 x 269 mm). Black Gothic type, Double columns, forty-two lines. Lombard two-line initials supplied in red on recto and verso, capital strokes in red. "Ezekiel" and "118" in manuscript black ink. Window mounted in a quarter red morocco over red cloth boards clamshell case. Front cover with rectangular red morocco label lettered in gilt "A Leaf/from the/Gutenberg Bible/Ezekiel 26:12 to 28:9. Spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments "A Leaf/of the/Guten-/Berg/Bible". A wonderful example of a Gutenberg leaf, remarkably clean and free from foxing. This leaf is not one of the usual 'Nobel Fragment' leaves dispersed by Gabriel Wells in 1921. Rather, it is from the Trier II copy found in a farmhouse near Trier in 1828 and subsequently sold by a Jewish doctor fleeing the Nazis in 1937 to Arthur Stoughton Jr. and then dispersed by Scribner's in 1953. Trier II leaves are much scarcer than 'Noble Fragment' leaves as only 132 were dispersed (as opposed to 500+ for the 'Fragment'). This "greatest of all printed books," the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed from movable type in the Western hemisphere (Printing and the Mind of Man). Only forty-eight copies of it are known, most of which are incomplete. Every copy, leaf, or fragment of this Bible represents a rare tangible piece of cultural history, and an immense achievement in the art and craft of printing. "Its printers were competing in the market hitherto supplied by the producers of high-class manuscripts. The design of the book and the layout of the book were therefore based on the book-hand and manuscript design of the day, and a very high standard of press-work was required-and obtained-to enable the new mechanical product to compete successfully with its hand-produced rivals. Standards were set in quality of paper and blackness of ink, in design and professional skill, which the printers of later generations have found difficult to maintain" (Printing and the Mind of Man). The text comprises the last 38 lines of Ezekiel 26, Ezekiel 27 complete, and the first 22 lines of Ezekiel 28. In Chapter XXVII The Prophet Ezekiel details The Glory and the Fall of Tyre. Tyre was the economic hub for worldwide commerce. She boasted of her great wealth and influence. In 598/596 BCE, King Jehoiachin and the Jewish elite had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia. In the eleventh year, shortly after the final capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar (587/586), the prophet Ezekiel had a vision of the capture of Tyre. The Lord said: "Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre, the city that is built along the sea and that trades with nations along the coast." "In Ezekiel 27, the city of Tyre is depicted as a beautiful ship whose success in trade is the very cause of its demise. As a seafaring vessel, Tyre is laden with goods from the surrounding nations with whom it trades. But a heavy ship in a storm can sink. In Ezekiel 27, weightiness - "glory" turns to excess weight, and it is precisely this weightiness that brings about Tyre's failure on the sea. The presentation of Tyre's demise is heightened by a preceding praise of its glory. This glory is the city's beauty, systematically described from end to end, as perfect bodies are in biblical and ancient Near Eastern literature. Ezekiel 27 is thus animated by two simultaneous metaphors: the city as a ship, whose weight determines its viability on the sea, and the city as a body, whose interaction with others determines its success in the world but whose corporeal boundaries must be maintained for health." (Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale Divinity School - Project Muse). Johannes Gutenberg - (c. 1400) - his exact year of birth is unknown - 1468. Born in Mainz, Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing with his movable-type printing press. As early as the 11th century, various moveable type technologies for paper books in China and Korea, had been used with either ceramic, wooden, or copper types. Gutenberg's method was the first to spread across the world. His work led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It also had a direct impact on the Renaissance, Reformation and humanist movement, as all of which have been described as unthinkable without Gutenberg's invention. It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research.. however it is not clear whether some early trials with printing from movable type were conducted there. In 1448 he was back in Mainz, where he took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus, quite possibly for a printing press.. By 1450, the press was in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there. Gutenberg was able to convince the wealthy money lender Johann Fust for a loan of 800 guilders. Peter Schöffer, who became Fust's son-in-law, also joined the enterprise. Schöffer had worked as a scribe in Paris and is believed to have designed some of the first typefaces. Gutenberg's workshop was set up at Humbrechthof, a property belonging to a distant relative. It is not clear exactly when Gutenberg conceived the Bible project, but for this he borrowed another 800 guilders from Fust, and work commenced in 1452. At the same time, the press was also printing other, more lucrative texts (possibly Latin grammars). There is also some speculation that there were two presses: one for the pedestrian texts and one for the Bible. One of the profit-making enterprises of the new press was the printing of thousands of indulgences for the church, documented from 1454 to 1455. In 1455 Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible. About 180 copies were printed, three quarters on paper, and the rest on vellum. Post Script: Some time in 1456, there was a dispute between Gutenberg and Fust, and Fust demanded his money back, accusing Gutenberg of misusing the funds. Gutenberg's two rounds of financing from Fust, a total of 1,600 guilders at 6% interest, now amounted to 2,026 guilders. Fust sued at the archbishop's court. A November 1455 legal document records that there was a partnership for a "project of the books," the funds for which Gutenberg had used for other purposes, according to Fust. The court decided in favor of Fust, giving him control over the Bible printing workshop and half of all printed Bibles. Thus Gutenberg was effectively bankrupt, but it appears he retained (or restarted) a small printing shop, and participated in the printing of a Bible in the town of Bamberg around 1459, for which he seems at least to have supplied the type. But since his printed books never carry his name or a date, it is difficult to be certain, and there is consequently a considerable scholarly debate on this subject. It is also possible that the large Catholicon dictionary, 300 copies of 754 pages, printed in Mainz in 1460, was executed in his workshop. Meanwhile, the Fust-Schöffer shop was the first in Europe to bring out a book with the printer's name and date, the Mainz Psalter of August 1457, and while proudly proclaiming the mechanical process by which it had been produced, it made no mention of Gutenberg. Every copy, leaf, or fragment of this Bible represents a rare tangible piece of cultural history, and an immense achievement in the art and craft of printing. "Its printers were competing in the market hitherto supplied by the producers of high-class manuscripts. The design of the book and the layout of the book were therefore based on the book-hand and manuscript design of the day, and a very high standard of press-work was required - and obtained - to enable the new mechanical product to compete successfully with its hand-produced rivals. Standards were set in quality of paper and blackness of ink, in design and professional skill, which the printers of later generations have found difficult to maintain" (PMM). BMC 1, p. 17; Goff B-526; GW 4201; Hain *3031; Printing and the Mind of Man 1; Proctor 56. .
Keywords: GUTENBERG, Johann FUST, Johann SCHOEFFER, Peter Books in Latin Fine Printing Incunabula Religion
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Title: Biblia Latina
Description: Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455. A Relic of the Invention of Printing - A Single Paper Leaf from the Gutenberg bible The First Complete Book Printed with Movable Type [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. [Biblia Latina]. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. A Single Old Testament leaf (numbered in manuscript fol. 118) from the Gutenberg Bible, containing the text of Ezekiel 26:12 - 28:9. Folio (14 5/16 x 10 9/16 inches; 364 x 269 mm). Black Gothic type, Double columns, forty-two lines. Lombard two-line initials supplied in red on recto and verso, capital strokes in red. "Ezekiel" and "118" in manuscript black ink. Window mounted in a quarter red morocco over red cloth boards clamshell case. Front cover with rectangular red morocco label lettered in gilt "A Leaf/from the/Gutenberg Bible/Ezekiel 26:12 to 28:9. Spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments "A Leaf/of the/Guten-/Berg/Bible". A wonderful example of a Gutenberg leaf, remarkably clean and free from foxing. This leaf is not one of the usual 'Nobel Fragment' leaves dispersed by Gabriel Wells in 1921. Rather, it is from the Trier II copy found in a farmhouse near Trier in 1828 and subsequently sold by a Jewish doctor fleeing the Nazis in 1937 to Arthur Stoughton Jr. and then dispersed by Scribner's in 1953. Trier II leaves are much scarcer than 'Noble Fragment' leaves as only 132 were dispersed (as opposed to 500+ for the 'Fragment'). This "greatest of all printed books," the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed from movable type in the Western hemisphere (Printing and the Mind of Man). Only forty-eight copies of it are known, most of which are incomplete. Every copy, leaf, or fragment of this Bible represents a rare tangible piece of cultural history, and an immense achievement in the art and craft of printing. "Its printers were competing in the market hitherto supplied by the producers of high-class manuscripts. The design of the book and the layout of the book were therefore based on the book-hand and manuscript design of the day, and a very high standard of press-work was required-and obtained-to enable the new mechanical product to compete successfully with its hand-produced rivals. Standards were set in quality of paper and blackness of ink, in design and professional skill, which the printers of later generations have found difficult to maintain" (Printing and the Mind of Man). The text comprises the last 38 lines of Ezekiel 26, Ezekiel 27 complete, and the first 22 lines of Ezekiel 28. In Chapter XXVII The Prophet Ezekiel details The Glory and the Fall of Tyre. Tyre was the economic hub for worldwide commerce. She boasted of her great wealth and influence. In 598/596 BCE, King Jehoiachin and the Jewish elite had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia. In the eleventh year, shortly after the final capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar (587/586), the prophet Ezekiel had a vision of the capture of Tyre. The Lord said: "Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre, the city that is built along the sea and that trades with nations along the coast." "In Ezekiel 27, the city of Tyre is depicted as a beautiful ship whose success in trade is the very cause of its demise. As a seafaring vessel, Tyre is laden with goods from the surrounding nations with whom it trades. But a heavy ship in a storm can sink. In Ezekiel 27, weightiness - "glory" turns to excess weight, and it is precisely this weightiness that brings about Tyre's failure on the sea. The presentation of Tyre's demise is heightened by a preceding praise of its glory. This glory is the city's beauty, systematically described from end to end, as perfect bodies are in biblical and ancient Near Eastern literature. Ezekiel 27 is thus animated by two simultaneous metaphors: the city as a ship, whose weight determines its viability on the sea, and the city as a body, whose interaction with others determines its success in the world but whose corporeal boundaries must be maintained for health." (Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale Divinity School - Project Muse). Johannes Gutenberg - (c. 1400) - his exact year of birth is unknown - 1468. Born in Mainz, Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing with his movable-type printing press. As early as the 11th century, various moveable type technologies for paper books in China and Korea, had been used with either ceramic, wooden, or copper types. Gutenberg's method was the first to spread across the world. His work led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It also had a direct impact on the Renaissance, Reformation and humanist movement, as all of which have been described as unthinkable without Gutenberg's invention. It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research.. however it is not clear whether some early trials with printing from movable type were conducted there. In 1448 he was back in Mainz, where he took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus, quite possibly for a printing press.. By 1450, the press was in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there. Gutenberg was able to convince the wealthy money lender Johann Fust for a loan of 800 guilders. Peter Schöffer, who became Fust's son-in-law, also joined the enterprise. Schöffer had worked as a scribe in Paris and is believed to have designed some of the first typefaces. Gutenberg's workshop was set up at Humbrechthof, a property belonging to a distant relative. It is not clear exactly when Gutenberg conceived the Bible project, but for this he borrowed another 800 guilders from Fust, and work commenced in 1452. At the same time, the press was also printing other, more lucrative texts (possibly Latin grammars). There is also some speculation that there were two presses: one for the pedestrian texts and one for the Bible. One of the profit-making enterprises of the new press was the printing of thousands of indulgences for the church, documented from 1454 to 1455. In 1455 Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible. About 180 copies were printed, three quarters on paper, and the rest on vellum. Post Script: Some time in 1456, there was a dispute between Gutenberg and Fust, and Fust demanded his money back, accusing Gutenberg of misusing the funds. Gutenberg's two rounds of financing from Fust, a total of 1,600 guilders at 6% interest, now amounted to 2,026 guilders. Fust sued at the archbishop's court. A November 1455 legal document records that there was a partnership for a "project of the books," the funds for which Gutenberg had used for other purposes, according to Fust. The court decided in favor of Fust, giving him control over the Bible printing workshop and half of all printed Bibles. Thus Gutenberg was effectively bankrupt, but it appears he retained (or restarted) a small printing shop, and participated in the printing of a Bible in the town of Bamberg around 1459, for which he seems at least to have supplied the type. But since his printed books never carry his name or a date, it is difficult to be certain, and there is consequently a considerable scholarly debate on this subject. It is also possible that the large Catholicon dictionary, 300 copies of 754 pages, printed in Mainz in 1460, was executed in his workshop. Meanwhile, the Fust-Schöffer shop was the first in Europe to bring out a book with the printer's name and date, the Mainz Psalter of August 1457, and while proudly proclaiming the mechanical process by which it had been produced, it made no mention of Gutenberg. Every copy, leaf, or fragment of this Bible represents a rare tangible piece of cultural history, and an immense achievement in the art and craft of printing. "Its printers were competing in the market hitherto supplied by the producers of high-class manuscripts. The design of the book and the layout of the book were therefore based on the book-hand and manuscript design of the day, and a very high standard of press-work was required - and obtained - to enable the new mechanical product to compete successfully with its hand-produced rivals. Standards were set in quality of paper and blackness of ink, in design and professional skill, which the printers of later generations have found difficult to maintain" (PMM). BMC 1, p. 17; Goff B-526; GW 4201; Hain *3031; Printing and the Mind of Man 1; Proctor 56. .
Keywords: GUTENBERG, Johann FUST, Johann SCHOEFFER, Peter Books in Latin Fine Printing Incunabula Religion
Price: US$ 95000.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05493
- Book number: 05493
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