Original incunabula leaf from the Bible in Latin (Biblia Latina) printed by Anton Koberger of Nuremberg in 1487. Reference: Hain 3167 & Darlow and Moule #6085 (note). (320 x 225 mm – 12 x 8 5/8’’)
This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letter in two columns. The central text block contains text from I Thessalonians: 3:6-4:17: “Nunc autem…” (But now when Timothy came to us from you, and related to us your faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us as we also to see you; Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith. Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord. For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before out God…For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept. For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord…).
The central text is surrounded by Nicolaus de Lyra’s famous commentary. “This work, which was used by Luther, and influenced some of his writings” was first published with the biblical text just six years earlier, in 1481.
Presented in an archival 16 x 12'' mat
