This is a copy of the Bible printed in two volumes in Latin. It was edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi who was an Italian Renaissance humanist and the Bishop of Aleria, in the eastern part of Corsica. He edited a lot of classical texts, and at the end of his life he held the position of the first papal librarian from 1475.

The printers Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner were prolific printers with over forty works attributed to them. and it is thought that they learned the art of printing from Johannes Guttenberg whilst they were in Mainz. They would go on to print one of the earliest editions of the Bible in German, c.1476-8.

This is an incunable, from the Latin incunabula (swaddling bands). This term is given to books ‘from the cradle of printing’, from 1455 when Johannes Gutenberg completed the Gutenberg Bible, the first handpress book printed with movable type, up to 1500. These books are from the first 45 years of printing.