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THEOLOGY. [Fmt and Schoeffer,
The preeeding device is wanting in some copies.
The second volume concludes with the Apocalypse; £ ©jcpltcit Itbet
apocalipfte bcati iobannis apfi •/ printed in red. The following is the
colophon ; also in red.
ifjoc opu^nrftt 2Ertificio£a aUinuetione
imgtnenbi £tu taracterisattfcL acaiamt
eearacon. in ciuitate Sl^oguntfj git efSgiattu
T afc cttscBia fcei infcuotrie per %oiyc$ faot ciue
et ^etru scijoifff)er fce gernfijcpm cicrtcu fci^
otcf ciuOfcem cot con^umatu^ ^fnno fcni*
cccc.irij. fciffilia^ afattmpcois fcirg. marie**
The two red sliields, as before, are beneath.
This edition, like the two preceding ones, is printed in double co-
lumns. A full column contains 48 lines, and is 11 inches high, by 3
inches and -| wide: the space between the columns is of an inch.
Each book has its tennination printed in red, as far as the first chapter
of the third of Esdras ; the remainder are blanks supplied by ms.
decorations in red or blue ink. In like manner the spaces for capital
initials are left blank. It is almost needless to add, that there are nei-
ther signatures, numerals, nor catchwords. I have seen five copies of
this beautiful work upon vellum, and one upon paper.f The present
tall copy is upon vellum, and in very fine preservation. The red
ink of Eaustus (says the Harleian Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 223. n°. 3247)
is remarkably bright, but the black seems to be excelled by the Subla-
* The following is the varying colophon as given by Maittaire, De Bure, anil Panzer:
Presens hoe opusculum finitum ac. completum
et ad eusebiam Dei industrie in ciuitate Mo-
guntina per Johannem Fust ciuem et pe-
trum Schoiffer de Gernsheym clericum dio-
cesis eiusdem est' consummatum anno in-
carnacionis dominice M. cccc.lxij. in uigilia
assumpcionis gloriose virginis marie.’
Beughem had before noticed this subscription in his Incunal, Typog, 1686, p. 12.
Lambinet gives a third varying colophon : Orig. de L’Imprim. vol. i. p. 198.
t Mr. Edwards, whose taste and experience in bibliography are well known, was so
obliging as to present me with a sheet of an imperfect paper copy of this Bible. The
beauty of this specimen is obvious.
THEOLOGY. [Fmt and Schoeffer,
The preeeding device is wanting in some copies.
The second volume concludes with the Apocalypse; £ ©jcpltcit Itbet
apocalipfte bcati iobannis apfi •/ printed in red. The following is the
colophon ; also in red.
ifjoc opu^nrftt 2Ertificio£a aUinuetione
imgtnenbi £tu taracterisattfcL acaiamt
eearacon. in ciuitate Sl^oguntfj git efSgiattu
T afc cttscBia fcei infcuotrie per %oiyc$ faot ciue
et ^etru scijoifff)er fce gernfijcpm cicrtcu fci^
otcf ciuOfcem cot con^umatu^ ^fnno fcni*
cccc.irij. fciffilia^ afattmpcois fcirg. marie**
The two red sliields, as before, are beneath.
This edition, like the two preceding ones, is printed in double co-
lumns. A full column contains 48 lines, and is 11 inches high, by 3
inches and -| wide: the space between the columns is of an inch.
Each book has its tennination printed in red, as far as the first chapter
of the third of Esdras ; the remainder are blanks supplied by ms.
decorations in red or blue ink. In like manner the spaces for capital
initials are left blank. It is almost needless to add, that there are nei-
ther signatures, numerals, nor catchwords. I have seen five copies of
this beautiful work upon vellum, and one upon paper.f The present
tall copy is upon vellum, and in very fine preservation. The red
ink of Eaustus (says the Harleian Catalogue, vol. iii. p. 223. n°. 3247)
is remarkably bright, but the black seems to be excelled by the Subla-
* The following is the varying colophon as given by Maittaire, De Bure, anil Panzer:
Presens hoe opusculum finitum ac. completum
et ad eusebiam Dei industrie in ciuitate Mo-
guntina per Johannem Fust ciuem et pe-
trum Schoiffer de Gernsheym clericum dio-
cesis eiusdem est' consummatum anno in-
carnacionis dominice M. cccc.lxij. in uigilia
assumpcionis gloriose virginis marie.’
Beughem had before noticed this subscription in his Incunal, Typog, 1686, p. 12.
Lambinet gives a third varying colophon : Orig. de L’Imprim. vol. i. p. 198.
t Mr. Edwards, whose taste and experience in bibliography are well known, was so
obliging as to present me with a sheet of an imperfect paper copy of this Bible. The
beauty of this specimen is obvious.