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Title: First Jenson Bible, 1476
Creator: Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480
Ege, Otto F
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-06-07T02:54:08Z
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 the First Jenson Bible, 1476 A.D., Venetiis: Nicolai Jenson; The first Bible from the famous press of Nicolas Jenson, the French printer from whose Venetian press came nearly a hundred of the finest books produced in the fifteenth century. When Jenson issued a second edition of the Latin Bible, in 1479, Pope Sixtus IV conferred upon him the honorary title of Count Palatine. (Hain 3061) (Copinger 28)--Otto F. Ege."
Type: text
Identifier: 32848cec-9c06-4227-9dca-1510aba0a0a1
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Language: Latin
Subject: Bible--History
Incunabula--Specimens
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Printing--Italy--History--15th century
Printing--Specimens
Place: Venice (Italy)
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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