farfel_n05_077_351

351
Heritage, LA.
Feb '93
$150

Biblia [Bohemian]
Kutna Hora Kuttenberg: Martin of Tischniowa, 14 Nov. 1489. f0
Ref: Goff B-621 HC 3162 Pr 9495 BMC III 816 GW 4324
See #168 #131 Cop: Harv CL, HEHL (-), NYPL, PML, LC.
folio 293 fiii

only book recorded from this press.
612 leaves, the 1st blank. 2 col. 2a: 50l. + headline, 230 (244)x
187mm. Capital spaces, with guide letters. with woodcuts. (117).
The headlines give the names of the books. Red printing
on 1a + in the last quire.
Types: 92-vernacular text type, rounder that that used at
Prague. Diamonded A, O, P, Q, S, U. Double hyphen, broad
M with dot on slanting bar to left.
160-heading type. S with double upright strokes
Folio 293 P5. 53 - 55, 8.
293 v P5. 55,8 - 58, 6.

The 1st complete Bible to be printed in Czech was issued
from the press of J. Kamp in Prague in 1488. iN 1475
the 1st pritned Czech N.T. appeared, though it is uncertain
whether it was printed in Bohemia.
- The only book recorded from this press. WIth an undated
ed. of Aesop, it is also the earliest book to be printed
at Kutna Hora, a small town 40 miles east of Prague.
Schriebu pllate 41 The Old T. has 112 cuts copied from the Nuremberg ed.
of 1483 + 8 in the New T.

18 copies are known of this book.