BIBLIA LATINA. Vulgata.

      INCUNABLE LEAF. - Leaf: Hieremias / Propha (folio) ccxcij (292). Single leaf printed recto and verso. Text in double columns, with 51 lines to a column, text in Latin. with rubrication and one blue and 2 red initials executed by hand. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1478. Sheet size: 41 x 28,7 cm. A leaf from the third edition of Anton Koberger's Latin Bible, issued three years after his first great folio Bible. This third printing of his Latin Bible is essentially a reprint of his editions of 1477 and 1475, largely based on the Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1462. Anton Koberger was for a number of years the leading publisher of his time. The total list of his printings for the forty years from 1473 to 1513, when he died, comprises no less than 236 separate works, including fifteen impressions of the Biblia Latina, eight of which presented material differences of notes and commentaries which entitled them to be considered as distinct editions. 'In the actual number of separate works issued, Koberger was possibly equalled by one or more of his contemporaries, but in respect to literary importance and costliness, and in the beauty and excellence of the typography, the Koberger publications were not equalled by any books of the time excepting the issues of Aldus in Venice' (Putnam II, p. 150).