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[BIBLIA LATINA]

Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamnti et sacrorum canonum
(Lyon
Jean Marion expensis Anton Koberger (Nürnberg)
1520
€800 - €1.200

In-folio (33,5 x 23,5 cm), [14], CCCXVII, [25] ff. Latin text, printed in gothic type in two columns. Title in red, Eusebian Canons in red and black. Two large woodcuts by Hans Springinklee (1495-1540, a pupil of Dürer) presenting St Jerome (on title) and Nativity (beginning of New Testament), Large woodcut of the 6 days of Creation at the head of Genesis, Solomon at Proverbs, and the Nativity at the New Testament and 144 smaller woodcuts in text (incl. repeats): 18 by Springinklee, 59 by Erhard Schön (1491-1542), and some other cuts mostly copied from the Venice 1498 ed. (foxing on title page, margins of title strengthened). 19th c. calf binding, with blind tooling, (some scratches), blue end-lvs, red edges, rebacked

Very rare Lyon Bible with the ""Koberger Bible woodcuts"".
Ref. Adams B- 998; SvGültlingen (Marion) 32. - Mortimer (Harvard French) 63.
Provenance:
ownership inscription on 2b6v ""John Line possidet hunc librum"" ; this copy sold by Sothebys in 1974