Fust Schöffer Bible

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Fust & Schöffer alliance coat of arms

The Fust Schöffer Bible (B 48) is a cradle print from the workshop of Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer in Latin from 1462.

history

Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer worked in the direct successor to Johannes Gutenberg in the workshop he had taken over in Mainz . The B 48 was preceded by three other printed Bible editions: the 42-line Gutenberg Bible (1455), the 36-line Bible by Pfister from Bamberg (1459/60) and the 49-line Bible by Mentelin from Strasbourg (around 1460).

The Fust Schöffer Bible is the first edition of the Bible in which the printer and printing date are named and which has a printer's mark (printer's mark ), an " alliance coat of arms " of Fust and Schöffer. Twenty copies printed on parchment have survived, 17 of them in public collections.

Book Description

The Bible is printed in a Gotico-Antiqua typeface designed by Schöffer , with 48 lines and two columns. As a rule, the book blocks left Schöffer and Fust's workshop without any further design, but with space in and between the text blocks so that they could be illuminated at a later date, depending on the local or personal taste of the buyer.

value

On November 25, 2019, a copy printed on parchment and bound in two volumes was auctioned at Ketterer in Hamburg , which was magnificently illuminated in two stages in northern Italy and in which the first layer (10 sheets) of the first volume from another B 48, the "Bible with the pigeon coat of arms", was probably added at the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century, which means that this copy also contains some initials by Guglielmo Giraldi from Ferrara . Ownership of this specimen can be traced back to before 1829. At the time it belonged to George Hibbert. Most recently the Bible belonged to the private collection of Antiquariat Bibermühle .

The auction to a Swiss collector achieved a price of 1.05 million euros ; the estimated price at the auction was 1 million euros. An estimate by Tilo Brandis in 2016 was 2.2 million euros.

literature

  • Eberhard König : Biblia pulcra. The 48-line Bible from 1462 - two parchment copies in the beaver mill. With a census of the surviving specimens by Eberhard König and Heribert Tenschert . Ramsen 2005.
  • NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible from 1462 . [Auction catalog]. Ketterer, Hamburg 2019. Without ISBN, without page counting.

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Individual evidence

  1. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [9].
  2. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [9].
  3. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , pp. [7, 10].
  4. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [5].
  5. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [9].
  6. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [7].
  7. ^ NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [13].
  8. NN: The Fust-Schöffer-Bibel , S. [5, 8].
  9. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , pp. [10, 13].
  10. ^ NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [13].
  11. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [18].
  12. ↑ Record amount for the Bible from Gutenberg-Presse , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on November 26, 2019
  13. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [5].
  14. NN: The Fust Schöffer Bible , p. [14].