1542 BIBLE in LATIN ILLUSTRATED by Sebald Beham antique RARE POCKET SIZE BIBLIA

NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ILLUSTRATUM...

Antwerp; 1542

Small size: 3 1/2 by 4 3/4 inches

Illustrated with numerous woodcuts after Hans Sebald Beham

Printer's device on title-page and last leaf.

Modern binding and endpapers

Very good interior

Ex-library

RARE

 Text in Latin
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The German artist Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), who often went by Sebald Beham or HSB, grew up in Nuremberg during a time of political unease.
The Nuremberg council actively sought out prints that might be considered propaganda or printmakers who might be religious agitators
Sebald, his brother Barthel (1502-1540), and their colleague George Pencz (1500-1550) were nicknamed the “Godless Painters” when they were brought to trial for atheism, specifically a disbelief in transubstantiation.
All three were expelled from Nuremberg, only to return after about ten months.

Sebald was chiefly recognized for his small engravings in the style of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the undisputed superstar of the era, but this similarity also brought him trouble.
When Hieronymus Andreae (ca.1500-1556) hired Sebald in 1527 to illustrated a Lutheran prayer book and several other projects, the two were accused of plagiarizing Durer and Sebald was once again forced out of Nuremberg.
Settling in Frankfurt, Sebald produced nearly 2,000 prints during his career.
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