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-1489 Latin Bible - Book of Genesis - Regum (Kings)*

-1489 Latin Bible - Book of Genesis - Regum (Kings)*

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B 1489 Latin Bible 

Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra. (Volume One) 

Printed in Venice, Ottaviano Scoto, 8 August 1489. Folio Size (14 x 9.25). Rebound in twentieth century. Half leather with wooden plank plates, three-ribbed spine with dry fillets crossed in the compartments. Gothic font, two columns per page. 74 lines of commentary surrounding the text. Woodcut illustrations throughout, one of which is a full page. Includes woodcut illustration of oxen baptismal font in the book of Kings. Some irrelevant woodworm holes on the first and last leaves. Two stains on the last page. 

A good example of an illustrated edition of the bible published on Italian territory. 

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