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Sale 31 Lot 1140  

ORIGINAL LEAVES FROM FAMOUS BIBLES, NINE CENTURIES 1121-1935 A.D.. Collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege, Ceveland School of Art, Lecturer on the history of the book, Western Reserve University. 37 leaves, each mounted and matted, each with an explanatory label. Including leaves from: an Armenian manuscript Bible, 1121; a Paris manuscript Bible, c. 1310; the Stephanus Latin Bible, Geneva, 1555; the King Jame's Bible, London, 1611; the Eliot Indian Bible, the first bible in a Native American language (Algonquin), Cambridge, 1685; and the Thomas Greek New Testament, Massachusetts, c. 1800. Loose, in a brown cloth-coverd box
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Sold for $1,600


       
 

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