• Bible, Latin

Uniform title:

• Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1461

Alternative:

• 36-line Bible

Printer:

• Pfister, Albrecht, approximately 1420-approximately 1470

Publisher:

• [Bamberg : Albrecht Pfister, not after 1461].

Format:

• Book

Date:

• 1461

Extent:

• 884 leaves ; 39.6 x 28.1 cm (folio)

Language:

• Latin

Description:

• Commonly known in English as the 36-line Bible.
• WHS copy is incomplete, consisting of 480 leaves, lacking portion now forming part of John Rylands Library set, and lacking leaves 89/5/6 (blanks canceled by first or subsequent binder). Besides this copy, WHS has 3 fragments described in following notes.
• WHS fragment no. 1 is strip of 9 lines of leaf (7 x 22.2 cm.) containing parts of Ps. X,1-5; XI,8-9; XIII, 3-5; XV, 3-5.
• WHS fragment no. 2 is fragment of vellum leaf (38.2 x 18.6 cm.), vol. II fo. 366, containing text of II Corinthians XII,5-21 and XIII,1-2.
• WHS fragment no. 3 is portion of paper leaf (32.8 x 19.5 cm.), vol. II, fo. 49, containing text of end of Ecclesiasticus 24, and chapters 25-26 complete.

Binding note:

• WHS copy has binder's ticket: "Bound by C. Hering, 10 St. Martin's Street."

Former owner:

• Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958
• Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834
• Liverpool, Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, Earl of, 1784-1851
• Schottenkloster (Würzburg, Germany)

Call number:

• 114.1
• 114.2
• 114.3
• 47.1
• Electronic Resource

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946018083506421

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• In Principio
• Germany grouping
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• The Scheide Library
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

Available online:

• Digital content