Folio. 40pp. With an original leaf from the fourth edition of the Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg's successors. The leaf contains text from Numbers 21 - 23, which concerns events in the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land. It is adorned with a pair of flourished two-line initials - a red "U" and a blue "D". Leaves from the Penteteuch are rare. Koenig, a noted authority and scholar of fifteenth-century manuscripts and German incunabula, proposes in the accompanying essay that this fragment is the only known copy of the 1462 Bible to have been illuminated in England for the English market. Text includes a census of extant copies of the 1462 Bible and an Introduction by Christopher de Hamel. Bound in quarter leather and paper-covered boards. The book and the original leaf are housed in a protective cloth folding case. Fine. (Chalmers 202).