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Title: Rusch Bible, ca. 1480
Creator: Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Rusch, Adolph
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
Ege, Otto F
Date Created and/or Issued: 1480
Contributing Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Collection: Early Manuscripts and Printed Book Leaves Collection
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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."
Type: text
Identifier: cbb63b44-525e-4717-a439-7b745ac91a80
https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/documents/detail/12235
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Language: Latin
Subject: Bible--History
Bible--Commentaries
Incunabula--Specimens
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Printing--France--History--15th century
Printing--Specimens
Place: Strassburg (France)
Source: Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Relation: 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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