Biblia latina (cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering). Add: Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra perfidiam Judaeorum.

Venice:: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1482/3., 1482. Volume II of III. Folio (in 10s). [12.5 x 8.7 inches / 32 x 22.4 cm.]. COLLATION (this volume is complete): A10, B10, C10, D10, E10, F10, G10, H10, J10, K8, 1(10), 2(10), 3(10), 4(10), 5(10), 6(10), 7(10), 8(10), 9(8), 10(8), 11(10), 12(10), 13(10), 14(10), 15(10), 16(10), 17(10), 18(10), 19(10), 20(10), 21(10), 22(10), 23(10), 24(10), 25(10), 26(10), 27(10), 28(10), 29(10), 30(10), 31(8), 32(10), 33(10), 34(12). This volume undated. NOTE: Part III [the third volume] is dated 1482, and the Additiones of Paulus Burgensis, 1483. CONDITION: occasional waterstains at beginning, mild staining: 14(2). ANNOTATIONS (ink): 11(10-verso), 28(8-r). HAND-COLORED INITIALS: With 1,176 beautiful hand-painted initials (599 red, 577 blue). Text printed in two columns with commentary of Nicolas de Lyra set within Biblical text, 73 lines per full sheet. BINDING: Eighteenth century stiff paper boards with paper spine or different stock, with manuscript spine titles, rear end leaf pastedown shows a dated sheet printed in 1713 (from blank verso, so inked part of sheet is shown in reverse), edges with light mottling; occasional stains, some occasional worm holes, including the endsheets. CONTENTS: Psalterium, Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Cantico, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, Isaias, Hieremias, Trenorum, Baruch, Ezechiel, Daniel, Osee, Johel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Naum, Abachuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharias, Malachias. THE FOURTH "RENNER" BIBLE AND PROBABLY THE FINAL PRINTING MADE BY FRANZ RENNER HIMSELF IN VENICE. The classical Vulgate text is based on the edition by Nicolaus Jenson, Venice, 1476 (GW 4222). The commentary is by Nicolas de Lyra (1270/75-1349). Franz Renner (active 1471-1483+), from Heilbronn, worked as a printer in Venice from 1471 to 1483. In 1494 Renner reappears in Ulm, again working as a printer. REFERENCES: ISTC (RLIN) ib00578000. Goff B578; Hain-Copinger, 3089*; Pell 2316; CIBN B-409; Hillard 389; Arnoult 281; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 04287; Girard 101; IBE 1024; IGI 1667; IDL 838; ISTC No.ib00612000; Sajo-Soltesz 638; IBP 1016; Madsen 681; Voull (B) 3701; Ohly-Sack 527, 528, 529; Sack (Freiburg) 635; Borm 467; Oates 1678; Sheppard 3358; Proctor 4182; BMC V 198; BSB-Ink B-449; GW 4287.