Incunable Bible - Biblia cum glossis ordinariis.cum expositione Nicolai de Lyra

      Paganinus de Paganinis, Venice 1495 - A remarkably near complete five volume of this important Bible. 1506 of 1512 leaves. 14th April 1495. Double columns of text with interlinear gloss, surrounded by commentary. 83 lines of commentary to a column. Illustrated with some fine woodcuts. All five volumes are bound in uniform modern faux leather, which is admittedly rather dull and unsympathetic, though practical. As an example, our bookbinder can rebind these volumes in contemporary style vellum for around £250-£300 per volume, but we can also have them rebound in calf, morocco or whatever takes your fancy. Occasionally shaved at the top margin affecting the headlines. Vol I. (14), 235 leaves. Missing final leaf FF6. Head of lower joint with minor loss. Final leaf with minor tear about 1/2 inch long affecting a few letters. Pretty clean inside with some waterstaining to top and bottom margins at front and rear. Vol II - 237-470 leaves. Some minor waterstaining to first and last few leaves, but again overall rather clean. Minor nick to raised band on spine. Vol III - 471- 499, 400-666 leaves. Generally tidy inside with the occasional streak or splodge. Around 10 leaves at rear softened slightly in the fore margin affecting about 1 inch of margin. Vol IV - 667- 1012 leaves. Small worm track affceting last six or leaves, just into text. Very minor staining to first and last few leaves, but overall internally very tidy. Four leaves (CCC1, CCC8, EEE1, and EEE8) in very neat pen facsimile. 4 inch tear to HHH7 which is nearly closed but affects a few letters. Vol V - blank, 1013-1397 leaves. Missing final colophon leaf. Final 20 leaves a trifle trimmed to the fore margin (about 1-2 millimetres). A little waterstaining to first few leaves. Early ink note scribbled out at bottom margin of first leaf. Some discrete early underlinings and marginalia. Small paper repair to bottom margin of leaf 1204 not affecting text. Some waterstaining to corners nearly throughout but generally failry clean. Around 6 leaves towards the back slightly softened in the fore margin, but it is only a small area affected. A rare opportunity to obtain a five volume incunabulum in near complete condition. ISTC ib00608000; Wild, M.F. Incunabula in the libraries of the University of London, 59; Hain-Copinger 3174*; Copinger 1035; Oates 2028, 2029; Rhodes, D. Oxford Colleges, 360;Sheppard 4268; Proctor 5170; BM 15th cent. V 458; BSB-Ink B-473; GW 4283; Goff B608; Bod-inc B-315. [Attributes: Hard Cover]