- Title
- First Jenson Bible, 1476
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- Creator
- Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480; Ege, Otto F.
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- Date
- 1476
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- Description
- Caption: "Leaf from the First Jenson Bible, 1476 A.D., Venetiis: Nicolai Jenson; The first Bible from the famous press of Nicolas Jenson, the French printer from whose Venetian press came nearly a hundred of the finest books produced in the fifteenth century. When Jenson issued a second edition of the Latin Bible, in 1479, Pope Sixtus IV conferred upon him the honorary title of Count Palatine. (Hain 3061) (Copinger 28)--Otto F. Ege."
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- Format Extent
- 1 paper leaf; 31 x 20 cm
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- Subject
- Bible--History; Incunabula--Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Printing--Italy--History--15th century; Printing--Specimens
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- Collection
- Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege; BS399.L3 E33
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- Type
- ["Manuscripts"]
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- Geographic Location
- Venice (Italy)
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- Language
- lat
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