A fine leaf from the fourth edition of the Vulgate Bible, or the 48-line Bible, preceded only by the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, the 36-line Pfister Bible (Bamberg) and the 49-line Mentelin Bible (Strassburg), and is the first also to include the date of publication, the place of printing, and bear the name of the printer.<ul><li>Mainz: Johann Fust &amp; Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1462.</li><li>Royal folio.</li><li>Leaf 194 from gathering 20 of book one, text from 2 Esdras chapter 15 and 16. Double column, 48 lines printed in Gothic type.</li><li>Titles and chapters in alternating red and blue letters, red and blue two-line initials, rubricated capital initials.</li><li>Lines 35 to 41 in both columns of recto (only) are reset.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in a cloth portfolio and with slipcase with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label.</li></ul>

Fust and Schoeffer 48-Line Bible Leaf

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of Quentel’s Protestant <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bible&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bible</a> in Latin.<ul><li>Edited by Johan Rüdel (German).</li><li>Biblia Sacra utriusque Testamenti, iuxta Hebraicam et Graecam ueritatem, uetustissimorumq[ue] ac emendatissimorum codicum fidem diligentissime recognita.</li><li>Coloniae: Petrus Quentel excudebat, 1527.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Title-page with large woodcut vignette of arms of Cologne, lion and gryphon rampant with and three crowns; numerous illustrations by Anton Woensam and ornamental initials throughout.</li><li>Text in Latin.</li><li>Bound in recent half calf and marbled boards.</li></ul> The first Protestant Bible in Latin, edited by Johan Rüdel (Rudelius), printed in Cologne by Peter Quentel (or Quentell), and notable for the wood engraved illustrations by Anton Woensam (Anton von Worms), particularly those at the head of each of the four gospels. Matthew faces an angle who is touching his stylus; a lion is seated beside Mark; a bull with Luke; and an eagle stands beside John. Quentel was the printer of Tyndale’s quarto Cologne English New Testament, known from a single surviving fragment in the Grenville Collection, where this same illustration to Matthew appears. It is a reasonable inference that each of the four gospels would have carried an illustration. The project, which had “‘got as far as the letter K’, the signature that would have taken the work well into Mark” (ODNB) was unfinished at the time of Tyndale’s flight from Cologne in 1525. Quentel’s print shop was raided, but sheets of the first gospel translated from the original Greek and printed in English soon began to circulate in England. Tyndale settled in Worms, where Schöffer completed an octavo printing of the first complete English New Testament in 1526 (a facsimile of the Grenville fragment and its illustration were published in 1871). The blocks for the illustrations evidently survived the raid on the Quentel’s shop, and are used here at the head of each of the four gospels. A notable edition in the history of the printing of the Bible.

Biblia Sacra utriusque Testamenti | Quentel’s Protestant Bible in Latin

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