In Seymour de Ricci’s “Catalogue raisonne des premieres impressions de Mayence (1445-1467),” Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced.  The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only, instead of two.

The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles, was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for line and in the same type.

2.  JUSTINIANUS.  Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum.  Consuetudines
    feudorum.  Codicis libri X-xii.  Moguntiae, Petrus Schoeffer, 21
    August, 1477.

Fol. 1^a. [Text (red)]:  In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia const_ituti_o prima si heres legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani. a.  Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]:  [I]N nomine d_omi_ni.  Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. Fol. 169^b. Explicit liber aute_n_ticor_um_. Fol. 170^a. [Text (red)]:  Incipiu_n_t consuetudines feudor_um_. Fol. 206^a. [Text (red)]:  Codicis d_omi_ni iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. Fol. 300^b, COLOPHON (red):  Anno incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs!  Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii. po_n_tifice maximo.  Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no, d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis!  Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER’S DEVICE in red.]

Folio. 1.  Novellae:  quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10}, 10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1} (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2.  Consuetudines feudorum:  quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3.  Codicis libri X-XII:  quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10}, 11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves.  In all 300 leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed signatures, catchwords or pagination.  Two- to six-line spaces, some with guide-letters, left for capitals.  Two pinholes, the use of which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than the date of this volume.  Titles and colophon printed in red.  The text type is that of the Bible of 1462.  Hain 9623.  Brit.  Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).

The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral scroll border in colors.  At the head of the several books are thirteen initials in gold and colors.  Chapter initials in alternate red and blue; initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.