[Rarebooks] FS: 13th c. Bible leaf book seldom seen.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(LEAF BOOKS) THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY BIBLE. An Essay with an  Original Leaf from a Latin Manuscript Bible. Akron, OH: Bruce Ferrini. (1994). Sm. 4to. (8)pp. With the original manuscript leaf in a plastic sleeve at back. Edition limited to 1,000 copies (see below). This copy is #15. The leaf in the text is from Micah 4:3, "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks... They shall learn war no more." Full faux medieval tan calf, covers blind tooled. Fine.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The actual number of copies bound and sold was probably less than 100. There is only 1 record of this publication in OCLC!. No copy appears in the auction records (RBH).  According to DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #206, the author of the text is Christopher De Hamel.

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