Bible Leaf (9 results)

1 leaf, 42 lines in two columns, decorated initial D with vine scroll. End of "Song of Songs," beginning of "Book of Wisdom." Mounted in black paper. Facsimile of original in the Gutenberg Museum of Mainz, printed for sale at the German Pavilion at Expo '67, the world's fair held at Montreal that year.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Palatine Bible (Lutheran text) ?ÄòJoshua with soldiers?Äô, single printed leaf with woodcut, folio, Sigmund Feyerabund, David Zephelium and Johann Rashen: Frankfurt, 1561.

Condition: Very Good. A single leaf, from the Germantown PA. Bible of 1763. The second German language Bible printed in America, utilizing the same text as the 1743 edition. The 1763 edition was of just 2000 copies, printed by Christopher Saur (1721-1784), the son of Christopher Saur the elder (d.1758). The younger Saur inherited the business on his father's death and printed numerous German language publications. This bible was printed several years before the first English language bible was printed in America. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 19.5 x 25 cms. Text is in German. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Special Features; Printed before 1800; German Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condition: Very Good. A single leaf, from the Germantown PA. Bible of 1776. The third German language Bible printed in America, utilizing the same text as the 1743 edition. The 1776 edition was of just 3000 copies, printed by Christopher Saur (1721-1784), the son of Christopher Saur the elder (d.1758). The younger Saur inherited the business on his father's death and printed numerous German language publications. Famously known as the "Gun-Wad Bible", after the supposed use of sheets from it during the American Revolution as cartridge paper during the 1777 Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible printed from type cast in America. Many copies of the bible were destroyed by the British during the battle. His son, Christoph Saur III was actually a Loyalist and left Philadephia with the British troops when they withdrew. The second Saur returned to Germantown to discover his workshop and property confiscated. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Text is in German. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Special Features; Printed before 1800; German Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book printed with moveable type in Europe, "justifiably treated as Europe's 'editio princeps'" (White, 'Editio Princeps', page 45) c.1455, approximately 285mm x 390mm in size. Lightly browned and lightly foxed, central horizontal fold, minor loss to top corner, a couple of pin holes, remnants of guard to one side, but generally fairly clean. Forty-two lines, in double column, with Lombardic initials in red and blue, and title letters NU and MERI alternating in red and blue. Latin text in Gothic script, this leaf is from 'Numbers', partial 8:13 to partial 10:23 [The purification, dedication and setting apart of the Levites; Passover; the Lord instructing Moses to make two silver trumpets; Moses and Aaron set out the tribes of Israel on their journey; the Israelites follow the Cloud of the Lord; and the Ark of the Covenant is carried]. Preserved in a vellum folder, inside a leather drop back box with onlays. With the 1921 essay by A. Edward Newton about the Gutenberg bible (though this is now loose leaves with the margins heavily cropped), also contained in a vellum folder. We are unable to state for certain that this leaf is one of the so-called 'Noble Fragments', which were the leaves from the incomplete Gutenberg broken by the bookseller Gabriel Wells, and sold off with in a portfolio by Stikeman, with the essay by Newton, but this seems the most likely provenance, with this example also sharing the "neatly executed alternating red and blue lombard headlines" (White, 'Editio Princeps', page 135). See Chalmers in de Hamel and Silver, 'Disbound and Dispersed', 18; PMM 1; White, 'Editio Princeps - A History of the Gutenberg Bible', passim Size: Folio.

Condition: Good. A single leaf, from the Germantown PA. Bible of 1743. The first German language Bible printed in America. The 1743 edition was of just 1200 copies, printed by Christopher Saur (the elder, d.1758). The younger Saur inherited the business on his father's death and printed numerous German language publications. This bible was printed many years before the first English language bible was printed in America. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 19.5 x 25 cms. Text is in German. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Special Features; Printed before 1800; German Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Single leaf, from a Bible illuminated in the workshop of William de Brailes, 18.5 cm. x 13.5 cm., 54 double column lines (ten lines per inch) of ruled Latin gothic script written in brown ink on vellum, with rubricated chapter numbers, two small two-line initials and marginalia in red & blue; mounted, glazed and framed. *The text is Revelation 14:15-18:14, beginning 'et alius angelus exivit de templo, clamans voce magna . . .' ['And another angel came out from the temple crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, because the hour is come to reap: for the harvest of the earth is ripe . . .'] . William de Brailes is one of only two 13th century English illuminators whose name can be associated with surviving works. His surname indicates that he was probably born in Brailes, Warwickshire, and he is known to have maintained a workshop in Oxford from circa 1230 to circa 1260. Signed.

245 x 158 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). Single column of text with two columns of gloss, text column with 26 lines in a fine proto-gothic book hand. Verso with scant remnants of mounting tape in a couple of places along one edge. See Gwara, Handlist no. 77. âUpper margin of fore edge unevenly trimmed away (but no text lost), a dozen-and-a-half small, round wormholes (touching just a couple letters), light soiling to edges and other minor imperfections, but still IN FINE CONDITION, the vellum very clean, and the ink dark and legible. The most important innovation in biblical scholarship during the 12th century was the development of the "Glossa Ordinaria" to the Bible. Drawing on the whole earlier tradition of biblical exegesis, but especially that of Latin patristic writers like Augustine and Jerome, scholars working in the French cathedral schools of Laon and Paris systematized this material in an apparatus of marginal and interlinear glosses arranged around the relevant biblical passages. The present leaf, showing a particularly beautiful and regular script, is a lovely example of one such work. The biblical text, appearing in the center column, is differentiated by larger lettering, and gloss appears interlineally and in a column on either side of the main text, all in smaller lettering by the same hand. Scott Gwara notes that the parent manuscript was formerly in the Medieval library of St. Oyan at St.-Claude du Jura, a Benedictine monastery founded as the Abbey of Condat around 425 and later known as St. Oyen (after an obscure saint who served as Condat's fourth abbot). In the 13th century it was renamed St.-Claude. By the 20th century, the manuscript was in the collection of William L. Clements (d. 1934), the bulk of which was sold by his estate between 1934-37. The manuscript was then acquired and dismembered by biblioclast Otto Ege around 1939. Gwara notes that the manuscript was incomplete by the time it reached Ege (containing only 80 leaves), but was "otherwise in excellent condition." The present leaf certainly attests to this assertion, being extremely clean, bright, and with comfortable margins.

First Edition. [King James First Edition Bible] Single Leaf Page from King James bible-page from the book of Luke 13:15-15:1 -the narrow gate - nf. London 1611- printed by Robert Barker printer to the king's excellent majesty in London 1639. First edition, fifth and final issue. Leaf Measure 16 1/4 " x 10 3/4 " on heavy weight cotton linen paper. 59 lines of text to the full page. Printed in beautiful old English gothic blackletter type font. the book of luke. Recto contains Luke 13:15 - 14:6 (the strait gate & dropsie healed); verso contains Luke 14:7 - 15:1 (the great supper & unsavory salt). The King James Bible was the English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, commissioned in 1604 and completed as well as published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VI and I. Noted for its "majesty of style", the King James Version has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world. Near fine [Herbert # 543].