BIBLIA LATINA.

(Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus G. Britonis (etc.). Tl. 1 (of 4). Nbg., A. Koberger 1497). Fol. Got. Type, 2 col., text surrounded by commentary in small type. With 28 woodcuts. 422 (of 424) rom. num. 18 th c. wood-covered boards with rhombuses (rubbed and damaged, missing the clasps). GW 4294. Hain-C. 3171. BMC II, 433. Goff B-619. Schreiber 3476. - Part of the fourth Koberger edition with the commentary of Nicolaus de Lyra, so first used in 1485. - The schematic wood engravings used for the first time in the edition of 1493 on which it is directly based. - Rubricated in red and blue. On sheet 2 and 4 one painted initial and border each. This is the 1497 edition, recognizable by the signature A2 (instead of Aii as in the 1493 edition). - The title fol. (p. 1) and p. 421 - p. 424 only fragmentary (upper half recto, opened). Some weak waterstains, several marginalia in an old hand, sporadically slightly worm-marked, some small marginal tears. - Incunable. Part 1 (of 4). With 28 woodcuts. Lacking title and sheet 421, sheet 424 damaged, partly slightly waterstained, occasional slight worming, few chippings. Marginalia.