Bible, Latin, Venice, 1480, later red morocco gilt, Clements copy

BIBLE. LATIN

Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480

4to (210 x 145mm.), 459 leaves (of 460, without initial blank), a-b¹⁰ c-z [et] [con] [rum] A-G¹² H-K¹⁰ aa-bb¹² cc¹⁴, double column, 52 lines plus headline, gothic type, initials and paraphs in red or blue, seventeenth-century red morocco gilt, early manuscript notes on final verso, somewhat dampstained throughout, binding slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

ISTC ib00570000

PROVENANCE:

"Daydie", inscription on flyleaf; William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, 13 March 1891, lot 327; Henry Clements, of Killadoon, bookplate (not found in his sale catalogue of 4 July 1966)