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Biblia sacra utriusq[ue] Testme[n]ti: : dilige[n]ter recognita [et] emendata, no[n] paucis locis: quae corrupta era[n]t:+ collatio[n]e hebraico[rum] voluminu[m] restitutis. Item in fronte libri ex Athanasio fragmentum de libris utriusq[ue] Testamenti

unknown, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843. fmo RIBRL, Bourguet. fmo RIBRL · 1523 · Nuremberg[a]e : Per Foedericum Peypus. Sumptu integerrimi viri Joannis Koberger Nuremberge[n]sis. · 4 pictures

A Latin Bible printed in Nuremberg in 1523 by Friedrich Peypus for the merchant Johann Koberger, collated against Hebrew manuscripts. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials and page borders in dense black-letter type, with one scene of a figure with a staff beside a tree and a sun and moon. A designer could take from them the interplay of ornate capital letters, tight text blocks and crisp black line work.

Imprint 1523

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