LATIN BIBLE; Incunabula, Venice, 1483.

LATIN BIBLE; Incunabula, Venice, 1483.
Printer: Raynaldus de Novimagio, Theodocilus de Reynsburg, Venice, 1483.
In good condition with restorations.
Exlibris stamp "Lamderti Botey".
Measurements: 29 x 22 x 9 cm.
Incunabulum of the Bible in Latin, printed in 1483 in Venice with initials rubricated in red and blue throughout the text. This edition is part of the important "Fontibus ex Graecis", a series of Latin Bibles that offered a corrected text of the Vulgate. The Vulgate, a Latin translation by Jerome of Stridon in the 4th century, became the standard Bible of the entire Latin-speaking Church until the first vernacular translations of the medieval reformers appeared.
During the rise of printing in Europe, Venice was one of the most active centers of book production, and especially of editions of the Latin Bible, the translation made by St. Jerome of Stridon in the 4th century (the Vulgate), which became the standard version within the Catholic Church. Multiple editions of this Bible were printed in Venice in the 15th century, many of them without printer's name or place in the colophon, which is common in early incunabula. There is one known copy of the Biblia Latina printed in Venice in 1478 by Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburg, preserved in libraries such as that of the University of Glasgow and catalogued as an incunabulum. From that point on, Venetian Bibles continued to appear in the following years. By 1483 versions derived from the American revision or from other textual corrections (such as that of Johannes Herbort of Seligenstadt) were being printed, all in the same tradition as the revised editions of the Vulgate.