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LATIN BIBLES.
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8. Biblia Latina Vulgata: TVithout Place,
Name, and Date; but prohablyprinted hy Albert
Pfister, before the year 1460. Folio. 3 vols.
These volumes are distinguished in the bibliographical world as the
Bible of Schelhorn; and they have yet many partisans who assign
to them a date anterior to that of the foregoing impression. The ce-
lebrated Schelhorn published a small brochure atUlminl760, 4to.
entitled ‘ De cintiquissima Latinorum Bibliorum editione, &c.; which he
afterwards republished in his edition of Cardinal Quirini’s Avork De
Optimorum Scriptorum Editionibus quce Romce prodierunt, Lindaug. 1761,
4to. see p. 61—71, with a correct specimen of the type, from a pas-
sage in the book of ‘ Revelations.’ The singularity, size, and apparent
nideness of the characters, induced many to believe it to be the first
printed text of the Scriptures. Meerman and Masch* both give it the
first place in the order of tlieir catalogues of Bibles ; but the former
does not subscribe to its precedence, and the latter does not give any
opinion respecting its comparative antiquity with the foregoing. In
the absence of the name of the printer, it was assigned to the press of
Gutenberg, or Fust and Schoeffer; but chance has discovered the legi-
timate artist who executedit. Clement was ignorant of its existence;
and although a copy of it was in the Gaignat collection, yet De Bure
coneludes his brief account of it by wishing some ingenious and learned
bibliographer to describe it more largely and satisfactorily.
In a German periodical publication styled by Camus ‘ Magazin his-
torique-Uteraire-bibliographique,f Meusel gave an account of an an-
cient volume, discovered by a minister of St. Ulrich, at Augsbourg,
of the name of M. J. A. Steiner, and containing three treatises: viz.
The Complaint of Death; A brief History of Joseph, Daniel, Judith, and
Esther; and the Poor Man’s Bible;% all printed in the German lan-
guage, and adorned with wood-cuts. Of these, the second treatise
happens to have a colophon including the name of the printer and the
date of the book.
* Orig. Typographicce; vol. ii. 284 : Billiotheca Sacra; vol. iii. p. 64-5-6: * Sed
quae ex hisceduabus editionibus antiquissimadicenda sit, non determinamus,’ says Masch.
+ Historisch-Litterarisch-Bibliographischen Magazin, 1702, 8vo.
t This is one of the famous Biblia Pauperum; concerning which Hcinecken and
Daunou have been copious and entertaining. Thc reader will find both the above works
of Pfister described in the ensuing pages.
7
8. Biblia Latina Vulgata: TVithout Place,
Name, and Date; but prohablyprinted hy Albert
Pfister, before the year 1460. Folio. 3 vols.
These volumes are distinguished in the bibliographical world as the
Bible of Schelhorn; and they have yet many partisans who assign
to them a date anterior to that of the foregoing impression. The ce-
lebrated Schelhorn published a small brochure atUlminl760, 4to.
entitled ‘ De cintiquissima Latinorum Bibliorum editione, &c.; which he
afterwards republished in his edition of Cardinal Quirini’s Avork De
Optimorum Scriptorum Editionibus quce Romce prodierunt, Lindaug. 1761,
4to. see p. 61—71, with a correct specimen of the type, from a pas-
sage in the book of ‘ Revelations.’ The singularity, size, and apparent
nideness of the characters, induced many to believe it to be the first
printed text of the Scriptures. Meerman and Masch* both give it the
first place in the order of tlieir catalogues of Bibles ; but the former
does not subscribe to its precedence, and the latter does not give any
opinion respecting its comparative antiquity with the foregoing. In
the absence of the name of the printer, it was assigned to the press of
Gutenberg, or Fust and Schoeffer; but chance has discovered the legi-
timate artist who executedit. Clement was ignorant of its existence;
and although a copy of it was in the Gaignat collection, yet De Bure
coneludes his brief account of it by wishing some ingenious and learned
bibliographer to describe it more largely and satisfactorily.
In a German periodical publication styled by Camus ‘ Magazin his-
torique-Uteraire-bibliographique,f Meusel gave an account of an an-
cient volume, discovered by a minister of St. Ulrich, at Augsbourg,
of the name of M. J. A. Steiner, and containing three treatises: viz.
The Complaint of Death; A brief History of Joseph, Daniel, Judith, and
Esther; and the Poor Man’s Bible;% all printed in the German lan-
guage, and adorned with wood-cuts. Of these, the second treatise
happens to have a colophon including the name of the printer and the
date of the book.
* Orig. Typographicce; vol. ii. 284 : Billiotheca Sacra; vol. iii. p. 64-5-6: * Sed
quae ex hisceduabus editionibus antiquissimadicenda sit, non determinamus,’ says Masch.
+ Historisch-Litterarisch-Bibliographischen Magazin, 1702, 8vo.
t This is one of the famous Biblia Pauperum; concerning which Hcinecken and
Daunou have been copious and entertaining. Thc reader will find both the above works
of Pfister described in the ensuing pages.