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Kimberly van Kampen and Paul Saenger, eds.
The Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions.
Published London: British Library/New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.
Series: The Bible as Book, vol. 2.
ISBN 0712346015.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 177x251x18mm.
Page count: text xii,164pp; plates 32pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed, rather ruffled and yellowed on its edges and corners; some mild moisture staining at the top of the spine; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
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Weight without packaging: 632g.

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Contents:
Kenny, Intro.;
Gumbert, Layout of the Bible gloss in ms. & early print;
Froehlich, Glossa ordinaria in print;
Palmer, Biblical blockbooks;
Saenger, Impact of the early printed page on reading of the Bible;
Needham, Changing shape of Vulgate Bible in 15th‑c. printing shops;
Offenberg, Hebrew printing of the Bible in the XVth c.;
Van Kampen, Biblical books & circulation of the psalms in late-medieval England;
Bedoulle, The Bible, printing & educational goals of the humanists;
Abad, The printing press in Alcalá de Henares — Complutensian polyglot Bible;
Welte, Problem of the ms. basis for the earliest printed editions of Greek New Testament;
Sherman, Impressions of readers in early English printed Bibles;
Steinmetz, Re-evaluation of patristic exegetical tradition in the 16th c.

Illustrations: 32 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 13pp
Indexes: Incunable editions; General.

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