Goff B607; HC 3173*; GfT 1246; Pell 2352; CIBN B-427; Hillard 401; Aquilon 123; Buffévent 89; Parguez 190; Péligry 172; Richard 109; Torchet 151; Zehnacker 445; Polain(B) 682, 682A; IGI 1684; IBE 1041; IDL 834; IBP 1038; Kotvan 250; Sajó-Soltész 660; Gspan-Badalic 114; IBPort 330; CCIR B-77; IJL2 89; SI 766; Mendes 226; Madsen 695, 696; Coll(U) 312; Louda 373; V. Jugareanu, Catalogul colectiei de incunabule (Sibiu, 1969) 72, 73; Martín Abad B-135; Nentwig 78; Ernst(Hildesheim) II,II 73; Günt(L) 2964; Voull(B) 2133; Voull(Trier) 1286; Leuze(Isny) 76, 77, 78; Ohly-Sack 545, 546, 547; Sack(Freiburg) 656; Hubay(Augsburg) 378; Hubay(Eichstätt) 181; Hummel-Wilhelmi 111, 112, 113; Borm 458; Schlechter-Ries 295; Finger 184, 185, 186; Kind(Göttingen) 673, 674; Wilhelmi 144; Döring-Fuchs B-195, B-196, [B-197]; Walsh 139, 140, 141; Oates 124; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 359; Bod-inc B-314; Sheppard 320, 321; Pr 299; BMC I 92; BSB-Ink B-442; GW 4282; Fac: ed. K. Froehlich and M.T. Gibson, Turnhout, 1992. A crisp, wide-margined leaf. First edition of the Latin Bible with the Glossa ordinaria, the standard Bible commentary of the later eleventh and early twelfth century, composed by Anselm of Laon, Ralph of Laon and Gilbert of Auxerre. The layout preserves the traditional manuscript format, distinguishing the Biblical text from the Glossa ordinaria surrounding it, and from the interlinear gloss, which usually consists of definitions or paraphrases of specific words. Glossed manuscript Bibles of the twelfth century were usually divided into multiple volumes, a fact that may be reflected in the many compositional units of the present edition. The unusual method of quire signing found in this edition, in which the signatures consist of the first seven letters of the alphabet repeated non-sequentially, does not indicate the order of the quires. Rather, these letters appear to be a form of press figure, each letter referring to one of the seven presses used to print the work. Three of the four type fonts used in the edition were also used by Johann Amerbach of Basel, from whom Rusch is known to have borrowed types and with whom he corresponded regularly. Albert Hartmann, editor of Amerbach's correspondence, attributed the edition to him, an opinion reflected for a time in the literature of incunable studies. The letters, however, make reference to the loan of types and speak of the Bible in terms which imply that it was Rusch's. They also indicate that Rusch was under contract to Anton Koberger of Nuremberg for the marketing of the edition, but that he kept about one hundred copies at Strassburg to sell on his own account. The edition is dated from inscriptions in the Cambridge University Library and Sion College copies which imply that those copies were purchased in 1480. Rubrication inscriptions in Munich and Budapest copies are dated 1481.