Yale Center for British Art

Title:
[Bible]
Alternate Title(s):
Title in ISTC: Biblia [Czech]
Published / Created:
[Prague] : [Printer of the 1488 Bible (Johann Kamp?), for Johann Pytlik, Johann? Severin, Johann von Störchen, and Mathias vom weissen Löwen], [August 1488].
Physical Description:
[1220] pages ; 32 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0540
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Place and date of imprint information from colophon, with printer information from ISTC. Colophon reads: ... W slawnem Miestie Starem Pražskem ... Pan Ian Pytlik, a pan Seweryn kramař ... a pan Ian od čapuow, a pan Matieg od Biele° lwa ... A to leta Božie° tisyczie° cžtyrzste° osmdesateho osmeho Miesyecze Srpna.

Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.4 x 21.1 cm. Text in two columns. Guide letters in initial spaces.

Signatures: a-g¹⁰ h⁸ i-z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B⁸ C-Z¹⁰ 2A-2B¹⁰ 2C⁸ 2a-2l¹⁰ 2m⁸ chi⁸ (a1 blank).

Incunabula short title catalogue (ISTC), ib00620000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-620

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3161

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW), 4323

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum (BM 15th cent.), III, p. 808

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 2367

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 9468

Mead, H. R. Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 5067

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0540: Imperfect: one leaf only, with text from chapters 27/28 from the Gospel of Matthew. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Bible -- Versions -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Printer of the Bible of 1488, printer, attributed name. | Kamp, Jan, active 15th century, printer, attributed name. | Pytlík, Jan, active 1488, bookseller. | Severýn z Kapí Hory, Jan, -approximately 1520, bookseller. | Bilý, Jan, active 1488, bookseller. | Matěj, od Bilého Iva, active 1488, bookseller.