1592 GERMAN THEOLOGY by Hieronymus Mencel antique 16th century PIGSKIN BOUND

Mencel, Hieronymus.

Hochzeit Predigten, bey ehelichen Vertrawungen und Einsegungen vieler hohen und niedrigen Personen. Aus dem Alten und Newen Testament

(Wedding Sermons, at Matrimonial Confessions and Blessings of Many High and Low Persons.
From the Old and New Testaments.)

Eisleben and Leipzig, Andreas Petri for Henning Grosse, 1592

8 unnumbered leaves, 363 (recte: 364) numbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf. Title in black and red.

With woodcut printer's mark (only half present). 


Original blind-tooled pigskin binding (stained and rubbed, front hinge cracked; without the brass clasps).

- VD16 M 4726. –

First edition of the sermon collection of the Eisleben theologian Hieronymus Mencel (1517–1590), who attended lectures in Wittenberg in 1540 by the reformers Luther, Melanchthon, Justus Jonas, Johannes Bugenhagen, and Caspar Cruciger.

 The title page has a large tear (half of the printer's mark is lost), the first two leaves of the preface have a gap in the text block (loss of text, repaired), and the following leaves have a small hole in that area.

The final leaf with the colophon also has a tear at the top.

The paper is browned due to age, and there are some period marginal annotations at the beginning.

The pastedown with 19th-century ownership inscriptions.

The pigskin binding shows, in the center panels of the covers, the allegory of Justitia with her attributes of scales and sword, and Lucretia stabbing herself.

 Size: 6 3/4 by 8 1/4 inches

Text in German
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Hieronymus Mencel (also: Menzel, Mencelius, Mentzel ;  1517 - 1590 ) was a German Protestant theologian.
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