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168
Sept. 1983
Dr. Eichenberger
Bien wil am See
65SF=$32.02
Biblia [Bohemian]
See #351 #131 Prague: [Epon. Press (Johann Kamp)] for Johann
Pytlik, Severin Kranersz, Johann von Storchen +
Matthias von Weissen Lowen, Aug. 1488. Folio.
Ref: Goff B620 HC 3161 BMC III 808 GW 4323 Bodmer #44
COp: HEHL, Harv CL, NYPL gg1(f10)
New Testament, I Corinthians 5, 6, 7
610 leaves, the 1st blank. 2 col. 47 l. + headline
247(263)x157 mm. Type 105 [inserted] single sloping hyphen (A, B, I, L, N, P, R, U with large initial loop) [end inserted] Captial spaces with
guide letters. The headlines give the names of the books.

No book printed at Prague contains a printers name.
a-g10, h8 1-2A10B8 C-Z AA BB10 CC8: aa-ll10 mm8; (i-iiij)8

Darlow + Moule #2177 The 1st ed. of the complete Bible
in Bohemia (Czech). THe text follows the ancient version
*1371-1415) revised by *Hus + his followers, (United Bretherer) esp. Martin Lupac.
Printed under the auspices + partly at the expense of the
civic authorities and with the aid of the Univ. professors at
Progue. COntains the Epistle to the Laodiceans.
- No title page or catchwords. leaves not numbered.
- Czech uses the acute accent mark to indicate length of vowel, not
place of stress.
The 1st Bible printed in any Slavic tongue.

In 1489 Martin von Tissnowa printed a Bible in the Czech language
with 112 pictures illust. the O.T. + copied from the Nuremberg ed. of
1483. In the N.T. there are only 8 pictures, in the Apocalypse
+ at the end, a woodcut representing 2 miners holding the city
arms of Kuttenberg. From 1498 Conrad Stahel of
Mermingen + M. Preunlein of Ulm printed in Brunn at
1st in partnership + afterwards separately. (See #208)