Berchorius, Liber Bibliae moralis, Cologne, 1477, old German stamped calf, Wedderen-Doheny copy

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Petrus Berchorius

Liber Bibliae moralis. [Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, 17 March 1477

Chancery folio (289 x 200mm), 426 leaves, [a–y¹⁰ z⁸ A B¹⁰ C¹² D–S¹⁰ T⁶ V¹⁰], 39 lines, gothic type, initials supplied in red or blue, red manuscript headlines, early seventeenth-century German stamped calf over wooden boards, traces of two pairs of clasps, occasional light damp-staining, rebacked retaining most of original spine

A TALL CRISP COPY of Berchorius's dictionary of Biblical words with his moral observations. This is the first issue, according to the setting of the text on the final leaf.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ib00339000

PROVENANCE:

Carthusians of Wedderen (Marienburg), inscription at end; Charles Thomas-Stanford, armorial bookplate; [A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, sold in 1942 to]; Estelle Doheny, red morocco gilt booklabel, sale, Christie's New York, 14 December 2001, lot 58