- Title
- Rusch Bible, ca. 1480
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- Creator
- Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849; Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Rusch, Adolph; Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513; Ege, Otto F.
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- Date
- 1480
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- Description
- Caption: "Leaf from a Rusch Bible, 1480 A.D. (Date generally assigned), Strassburg: Printed by Adolph Rusch; The first printed Latin Bible with glosses, made by Adolph Rusch for the noted Nuremberg printer and publisher Anton Koberger. The marginal glosses are by Strabo, a ninth century writer and the interlinear notes by Anselmus of the eleventh century. It is a remarkably successful solution of a challenging problem of composition with four sizes of gothic type--Otto F. Ege."
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- Format Extent
- 1 paper leaf; 47 x 33 cm
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- Subject
- Bible--History; Bible--Commentaries; Incunabula--Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Printing--France--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
- Strassburg (France)
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- Language
- lat
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