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1597 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED by JM Bocksberger & Jost Amman FOLIO antique GERMAN
1597 BIBLE ILLUSTRATED by JM Bocksberger & Jost Amman FOLIO antique GERMAN
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Bibell. Das ist, Alle Bücher Alts und News Testaments ...
trewlich verteutscht, und mit vielen heilsamen Annotaten erleucht, durch D. Johan Dietenberger.
(Biblia Germanica - Biblical. That is, all the books of the Old and New Testaments ...
faithfully translated into German and illuminated with many useful annotations by D. Johan Dietenberger.)
2 parts in 1 volume.
Cologne, G. Calenius and J. Quentel's heirs: 1597
Folio: 8 3/4 by 13 1/2"
.With repeated broad figurative title border and numerous text woodcuts, partly monogrammed "HE" and "SHF".
6 lvs., 450 lvs, 138 (recte 139) numbered lvs, 1 leaf.
Original blind-stamped pigskin wooden boards , repaired, rebacked, modern endpapers, with 2 original intact clasps
. - VD 16 B 2832. - Not in BSWL. -
- The title frame shows the Trinity at the top, symbols of the evangelists on the left and right, and the apostles in an architectural frame below;
the text woodcuts are partly after JM Bocksberger and Jost Amman.
- The title and the first leaf at the bottom with marginal damage, initially waterstained, in places with minor worm marks in the outer margin, the last leaf with a missing part (no loss of text), some toning
Provenance:
- From the Ranshofen Canonry near Braunau am Inn, with an old ownership note on the title and an entry by the painter Maximilian Liebenwein (1869-1926), who acquired the Bible in 1905, as well as his bookplate.
Text in German
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