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BIBLE, in German

Lot 115
11.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 115 | BIBLE, in German
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
BIBLE, in German
Biblia, Das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft: Deutsch Auffs new zugericht. Translated by Martin Luther ( - Die Propheten alle Deutsch. - Das New Testament. Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1544-1545.
‘The large folio Bible from 1545 is the last one that Luther edited himself. For centuries, its text was the definitive one for the German Protestant Bible. No one dared to make any changes to this final edition of the Bible... Luther's last Bible from 1545 remained inviolable (until the revision in 1858-92)... For a long time, the inviolability also applied to the images in the final edition, the same images that Luther had included in his first full Bible in 1534’ (Schmidt, Luther Bible, 222). In this copy, the title is from the 1545 edition, but the date has been altered to read 1551, and the following 5 leaves comprising the first gathering were supplied at an early stage from the Lufft edition of 1551; the rest of the book collates as per the 1545 edition. VD16 B 2718; STC 89; Darlow-Moule II, 4205; Benzing-Claus 145.2.

2 parts in one volume, folio (310 x 203 mm). Two titles printed in red and black, numerous full-page and smaller woodcut illustrations after Lucas Cranach, Georg Lemberger and Hans Brosamer, the full-page woodcuts of God creating Eve and the geocentric image of God creating the universe as well as 6 other woodcuts in the text coloured by a contemporary hand, historiated woodcut initials (Old Testament: leaves *2-6 supplied from the 1551 edition, title repaired at gutter, title and second leaf with old reinforcement at edges to chipped margins with some loss mainly confined to blank areas and only affecting tiny area at corner of woodcut border of title, date on title altered in ink and erasure with paper repair to read ‘MDLI’, f3 with short marginal tear, occasional light marginal dampstain to lower gutter from gathering N onwards; Prophets and New Testament: leaf A2 with repaired tear just affecting folio number and a few letters of side note, D3 and l6 with short marginal tears, lower blank corner of X2 chipped, 2G3-4 slightly more heavily browned, faint dampstain in upper margin from gathering 2D to end, becoming heavier, and also in lower margin from 2S to end). Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (modern brass cornerpieces and clasps, the whole sometime refurbished with top of lower cover completely restored). Provenance: early ink annotation on title and in first gathering noting that first gathering has been supplied from the 1551 edition, and as been collated against a copy in Lüneburg.
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Books and manuscripts, Printed books
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