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Dmitry Galtsin, Galina Pitulko, The Saint Petersburg Oliver Bible: Concerning the Ownership and Use of an Early Family Bible (1478) in Kent in 1479–1529, The Library, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 332–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpae028
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Abstract
The article studies a Latin bible printed in Nürnberg by Anton Koberger in 1478 and now stored in the Rare Book Department of the Russian Academy of Science Library (Biblioteka Akademii Nauk - BAN). This copy, which was part of Nikolai Likhachev’s book collection, had been owned in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries by the Oliver Lorncourt family of Kentish gentry, as numerous handwritten notes on its pages testify. These marginalia were written by two Oliver Lorncourts in 1479-1529 and represent a valuable source on the history of the vast Oliver Lorncourt-Olivier de Leuville clan, especially its lesser known Kentish branch. The contents of Oliver Bible marginalia are analysed with other characteristics of this incunabulum, and the text of the marginalia in given in an appendix.