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Can anyone see this well enough to work out where in Exodus this is from? I can't get a better picture unfortunately.
Do you see the geese at the bottom? It is Gutenberg's trademark. His complete name is Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. The middle high German word Gensfleisch translates as "goose meat".
Just a hunch- I think Frides is happy!
Thank you for deciphering the sentence. I'm glad to see my schoolboy Latin remains robust enough to understand it. I had been a bit downcast, as I don't know enough about the conventions of written Latin in that period to have been able to make much sense of the text on the facsimiles.
At this site: [ https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/04669/facts.the_gutenberg_bible_of_1454.htm ], there is a nice facsimile of both volumes, available for £ 100. This is one of the facsimiles I want to buy someday; another is a reproduction of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in three volumes (ISBN 1122141947).
These are available from several sources. Be sure to shop around.ooooh! I wonder if it's a facsimile with or without geese?
I want a Voynich facsimile.