5a. THE 1462 BIBLE

[BIBLIA LATINA]. 2 vols. Printed on vellum. Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1462.

Bridwell Library’s two volumes of the 1462 Bible constitute a mixed set. While the first volume comes from the collection of Lucius Wilmerding, the second volume bears the inscriptions “Balthasar de Batthyany” and “Conventus Nemetujvariensis 1661.” These indicate the ownership of the sixteenth-century count whose territorial holdings included the Franciscan monastery at Németújvár (Güssing), Hungary.

Bridwell Library also possesses both volumes of Schoeffer’s second Latin Bible, reprinted from the present edition in 1472.