Description
ISAIAH 40:13-43:4. “With Wings as Eagles” (40:31). RARE FIRST EDITION. Biblia Latina. Printed in Nuremburg by Anton Koberger, 1475. Folio, 15.7″ x 10.7″. With 3 Handpainted Capitals, in Red and Blue; and rubricated throughout. Leaves are a beautiful creamy color, on very heavy vellum-like paper. COA on premium “gold leaf” paper. SUPERIOR condition; small, very light stain to outer margin (see pics). This rare edition is the FIRST of Koberger’s Bibles, the FIRST Bible printed in Nuremburg, the 18th printed Latin Bible, and the 23rd printed Bible — ever! Only 104 copies of this Bible are recorded extant!!
Text includes the first “Servant Poem” in Ch 42:1-9, and the ever popular “they shall mount up with wings like eagles” in 40:31. Overall, the text continues Isaiah’s powerhouse declaration (starting at 40:1) of the end of Israel’s Exile in Babylon, a turning point in Israel’s history with God as well as her newly articulated vocation, as the Lord’s servant, to become a “light to the nations” (42:6) . For smaller incunabula leaves, see the several Biblia Sacra under “Bifold Portfolio”.
