Bibliographia Bibliorum Latinorum

A Bibliography of Early Printed Latin Bibles

1490-1499

❧ 1490-1494

  1. Biblia Latina, edited by Stephanus Pariseti, Lyon, Jacobus Maillet, 9 June 1490. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/760529
      ❧ 19 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Württemberg State Library
  2. Biblia cum Concordantiis Veteris et Novi Testamenti, [Frieburg, Kilian Fischer], 1491. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740083
      ❧ 77 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: $12,500 (Hindman, May 2021)
  3. Biblia integra: summata: distincta: superemendata: utriusq[ue] testamenti concordantiis illustrata [Complete Bible: summarised: distinguished: thoroughly revised: illustrated with concordances of both Testaments], Basel, Johann Froben, 27 June 1491. First Bible printed in octavo format. First Latin Bible to include Ad divinarum litterarum … amatores exhortatio. One of the earliest printed Latin bibles to provide references to parallel passages throughout. D&M 6086 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740085
      ❧ 225 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
      ❧ Auction: £10,000 (Christies, Dec 2017)
  4. Biblia Latina, Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 9 January 1491. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740084
      ❧ 90 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
  5. 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], Strasbourg, [Johann Grüninger],1492. Folio. Typically bound in four volumes. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740097
      ❧ 196 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library
      ❧ Auction: €2,200 (Arenberg, June 2019, vol 4 of 4 only)
  6. Biblia Latina, Venice, Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 September 1492. Octavo. Edited by Petrus Angelus de Monte Ulmi. First printed Latin Bible to include a woodcut on the title page, the first to include Tabula Alphabetica Historiarum Bibliae by Gabriel Bruno, and the first to include the anonymous Translatores Biblie. It also contains a remarkably detailed colohpon where Paganini refers to the Bible as Liber Vitae – the Book of Life. D&M 6087 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999289
      ❧ 112 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: $8,125US (Bonhams, Feb 2013)
  7. Biblia Latina, [Freiburg, Kilian Fischer, about 1493-1494] or [Basel: Johann Amerbach, about 1494-1495]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740086
      ❧ 65 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: £7,040 (Bonhams, November 2024)
  8. Biblia Latina, [Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, not after 1493]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740087
      ❧ 52 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Umea
  9. 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, 1493. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740098
      ❧ 214 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
  10. Biblia Latina, [Lyon], Mathias Huss, 1494. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/202411
      ❧ 27 copies
      ❧ Digital copy:
  11. Biblia cum Tabula Noviter Edita, Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 22 November 1494. First printed Latin Bible to include Tabula super Bibliam per versus composita attributed to Alexander Villadeus (fl. c. AD 1240). Quarto. D&M 6089 (note. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999288
      ❧ 122 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Austrian National Library

❧ 1495-1499

  1. Liber Vit[a]e. Biblia cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis aliorumque et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis et cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra expositionibusque Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi [Latin Bible with the standard gloss of Walafrid Strabo and others, and the interlinear gloss of Anselm of Laon, and with the postils of Nicholas of Lyra, and the expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome], Venice, Paganinus de Paganinis, 18 April 1495. Folio. Typically bound in four volumes. First bible to include both the commentaries of Nicholas de Lyra and the Glossa Ordinaria. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999284
      ❧ 209 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican Library
      ❧ Auction: £8,190 (Sotheby’s, Nov 2021)
  2. Biblia integra: summata: distincta: accuratius reemendata: utriusq[ue] testamenti concordantiis illustrata [Complete Bible: summarised: distinguished: more accurately revised: illustrated with concordances of both Testaments], Basel, Johann Froben, 27 October 1495. Octavo. D&M 6086 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740088
      ❧ 218 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: £2,040 (Forum Auctions, Jan 2017)
      ❧ Auction: €2,640 (Hartung & Hartung, May 2025)
  3. Biblia Latina, Brescia, Angelus Britannicus, and Jacobus Britannicus, 29 December 1496. Octavo. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999287
      ❧ 82 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican
  4. Biblia cum summariis concordantiis (with the table of Gabriel Brunus), [Lyon], François Fradin, and Jean Pivard, 23 December 1497. Folio (but Quarto). D&M 6088 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/760530
      ❧ 40 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: ONB
  5. Biblia cum summariis concordantiis (with the revised table of Gabriel Brunus), Strasbourg, [Johann Grüninger], 26 April 1497. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740089
      ❧ 110 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: DFG
      ❧ Auction: $5,625 (Christies, Apr 2021)
  6. 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, 1497. Folio. Typically bound in four volumes. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740099
      ❧ 168 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican Library
  7. Biblia Latina, Venice, Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 September 1497. Octavo. D&M 6087 (note) https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999286
      ❧ 134 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican
  8. Biblia Latina cum postillis Hugonis de Sancto Caro [Latin Bible with the Commentaries of Hugh of Saint Cher, [Basel], Johann Amerbach for Anton Koberger, [1498-1502]. Folio. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740094
      ❧ 233 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Heinrich Heine
  9. Biblia cum Tabula nuper Impressa & cum Sumariis Nouiter Editis, Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 8 May 1498. Quarto. First printed Latin Bible to include narrative woodcut illustrations (73 woodcuts). D&M 6089 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/999285
      ❧ 157 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: Vatican Library
      ❧ Auction: €6,300 (Gonnelli, March 2024)
      ❧ Auction: £4,864 (Bonhams, November 2024)
  10. Biblia Latina cum glossa ordinaria Walafridi Strabonis aliorumque et interlineari Anselmi Laudunensis et cum postillis ac moralitatibus Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis [Latin Bible with the ordinary gloss of Walafrid Strabo and others, and the interlinear gloss of Anselm of Laon, and with the Commentaries and moral teachings of Nicholas of Lyra, and the expositions by William Briton on all the prologues of St. Jerome, and additions by Paul of Burgos], Basel, Johann Froben, and Johann Petri de Langendorff, 1 December 1498. Folio. Usually bound in six volumes. https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/740092
      ❧ 264 copies
      ❧ Digital copy: HHU
Woodcut detail, Delevi peccatum tuum (I have blotted out your sin), Biblia cum tabula nuper impressa & cum sumariis nouiter editis, Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 8 May 1498. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada. Photographed by Scott McLaren.