Bibliographia Bibliorum Latinorum

A Bibliography of Early Printed Latin Bibles

1480-1489

❧ 1480-1484

  1. Biblia Latina, Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. Quarto. Bod-Inc B-279 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999296
      ❧ 105 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican Library
      ❧ Auction: £5,625 (Christies, Nov 2010)
  2. Biblia Latina, [Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, about 1480]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740071
      ❧ 1 copy
      ❧ Digital copy:
  3. Biblia Latina, Venice, Franciscus Renner, 1480. Folio. Bod-Inc B-275 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999297
      ❧ 144 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
      ❧ Auction: $25,850US (Christies, Oct 2001)
  4. Biblia Latina with additions by Menardus Monachus. Ulm, Johann Zainer, 29 January 1480. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740068
      ❧ 65 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: $56,250US (Christies, Apr 2021)
  5. Biblia Latina with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis. [Strasbourg, Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger, not after 1480]. Folio. First Latin Bible printed with glosses. Generally bound in four or more volumes. D&M 6083 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740091
      ❧ 285 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Heinrich Heine University
      ❧ Auction: €71,050 (Christies, Apr 2008)
  6. Biblia Latina, Cologne, [Nicolaus Götz], 9 May 1480. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740070
      ❧ 22 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: £4080 (Christies, Nov 2006)
  7. Biblia Latina with additions by Menardus Monachus. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 14 April 1480. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740069
      ❧ 96 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  8. Biblia Latina, [Basel, Johann Amerbach], 1481. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740072
      ❧ 111 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  9. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering [Latin Bible with Commentaries by Nicolas of Lyra and expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions by Paul of Burgos and replies by Matthias Doering], Venice, [Johannes Herbort], for Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson, and associates, 31 July 1481. Folio. First Latin Bible printed with the commentaries of Nicholas de Lyra. Typically bound in four volumes. Does not include woodcut illustrations. See also no. 61 below. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999283
      ❧ 230 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: HHU
  10. Biblia Latina, Venice, Leonardus Wild, 1481. Folio. D&M 6084 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999295
      ❧ 51 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  11. Biblia Latina, [Basel, Johann Amerbach], 1482. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740073
      ❧ 92 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  12. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering. Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra perfidiam Judaeorum [Latin Bible with Commentaries by Nicolas of Lyra and expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions by Paul of Burgos and replies by Matthias Doering. Also Nicolas of Lyra’s Against the Treachery of the Jews], Venice, Franciscus Renner, 1482-1483. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999282
      ❧ 255 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  13. Biblia Latina, [Lyon], Nicolaus Philippi, and Marcus Reinhart, 1482. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/200848
      ❧ 24 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  14. Biblia Latina, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 31 December 1482. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740074
      ❧ 68 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
  15. Biblia Latina, [Lyon, Mathias Huss], 1483. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/760302
      ❧ 16 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  16. Biblia Latina with additions by Franciscus Moneliensis and Quintius Aemilianus. Venice, Johannes Herbort, 31 October 1483. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999293
      ❧ 124 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  17. Biblia Latina, Venice, Franciscus Renner, 1483. Quarto. D&M 6086 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999294
      ❧ 111 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: $6,000US (Sotheby’s, Jun 2018)
  18. Biblia Latina, [Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger], 1483. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740075
      ❧ 64 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  19. Biblia Latina, Venice, Johannes Herbort, 30 April 1484. Quarto. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999292
      ❧ 200 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:

❧ 1485-1489

  1. Biblia Latina, [Basel, Michael Wenssler], 1485. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740076
      ❧ 40 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  2. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering. Nicolaus de Lyra, Contra perfidiam Judaeorum [Latin Bible with Commentaries by Nicolas of Lyra and expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions by Paul of Burgos and replies by Matthias Doering. Also Nicolas of Lyra’s Against the Treachery of the Jews], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1485. Folio. First Latin Bible printed with woodcut illustrations. Typically bound in four volumes. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740095
      ❧ 189 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: HHU
      ❧ Auction: $22,000US (ZevAntiques, Oct 2024)
  3. Biblia Latina, [Venice, Nicolaus de Frankfordia, about 1485]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999291
      ❧ 13 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  4. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering. Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra perfidiam Judaeorum [Latin Bible with Commentaries by Nicolas of Lyra and expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions by Paul of Burgos and replies by Matthias Doering. Also Nicolas of Lyra’s Against the Treachery of the Jews], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1486-1487. With woodcut illustrations (see no. 63). Folio. Typically bound in four volumes. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740096
      ❧ 276 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  5. Biblia Latina, [Speyer, Peter Drach], 1486. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740078
      ❧ 43 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  6. Biblia Latina, [Basel, Johann Amerbach], 1486. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740077
      ❧ 65 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  7. Biblia Latina, [Strasbourg, Johann Prüss], 1486. Folio. First Latin Bible with a title page (‘Textus Biblie’). D&M 6086 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740079
      ❧ 86 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
  8. Biblia Latina, [Lyon, Printer of Guido, ‘Casus longi’], 1487. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/760303
      ❧ 13 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  9. Biblia Latina, [Basel], Nicolaus Kesler, 9 October or 24 November 1487. First Latin Bible to include Modus Intelligendi Sacram Scripturam. Folio. D&M 6086 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740080
      ❧ 90 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  10. Biblia Latina, Venice, Georgius Arrivabenus, 27 February 1487-1488. Quarto. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999290
      ❧ 100 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
      ❧ Auction: $11,875US (Christies, Apr 2021)
  11. Biblia Latina cum postillis et expositionibus in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus. Contra perfidiam Judaeorum [Latin Bible with Commentaries and expositions on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions], [Lyon], Johann Siber, [about 1488]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/202710
      ❧ 90 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  12. Biblia Latina, [Strasbourg, Johann Prüss], 1489. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740082
      ❧ 89 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
      ❧ Auction: €4,600 (Burgersdijk & Niermans, Nov 2023)
  13. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering. Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra perfidiam Judaeorum [Latin Bible with Commentaries by Nicolas of Lyra and expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, with additions by Paul of Burgos and replies by Matthias Doering. Also Nicolas of Lyra’s Against the Treachery of the Jews], Venice, [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 8 August 1489. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999281
      ❧ 180 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  14. Biblia Latina, [Speyer, Peter Drach], 1489. Last genuine Fontibus ex Graecus edition. Folio. D&M 6086 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740081
      ❧ 92 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:

Total Surviving Copies of Latin Bibles by Printer/Publisher, 1480-1489

Detail, Gold-ground decorated initial, Biblia Latina, Venice, Georgius Arrivabenus, 27 February 1487-1488. Private Collection. Photographed by Scott McLaren.