[Rarebooks] FS: Koberger printing of a Nicolaus de Lyra's "Reportorium in Postillam" Nuremberg: 1494

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(INCUNABULA) Nicolaus de Lyra. REPORTORIUM IN POSTILLAM Nicolas de Lyra, Super Vetus et Novum Testamentum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger. 19 April, 1494. 4to. ff.(156) with the final blank. Double column, gothic type. Rubricated, the first capital on A2 with a small face and marginal flourishes. Very clean copy in original vellum covers, covering oak boards, worn. Ornately blind tooled with 4 stamps (each cover has a different tool) in diagonal sections in the center portion. Old paper label on front cover, no longer readable. Binding with one fore-edge clasp and catch in the center of the fore-edge, present and working. With the 19th century bookstamp of Judaica collector Arthur Teller, M.D.     $6,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The "Postillae" of Nicolas de Lyra (d. 1349) was the most consulted manual of Biblical criticism until the 16th century. It is a catalog of his critical interpretations and notes to help explain Biblical texts, of both Old and New Testaments. The REPERTORIUM IN POSTILLAM, of which there are four 15th century printings, 1484, two in 1492, and our Koberger printing in 1494, is not an edition of the POSTILLAE, but rather a subject index to the POSTILLAE, organized in dictionary (A to Z) form. It is a handy reference volume to the study of POSTILLAE. Hain 10399; BMC II, 438; Goff N150; ISTC in00150000 (recording 7 copies in the United States).
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