De Biblie , [19 November 1494]
- Title(s):
- De Biblie / mit vlitigher achtinghe: recht na deme latine in dudesck auerghesettet ; Mit vorluchtinghe vnde glose: des hochghelerden Postillatoers Nicolai de lyra vnde anderer velen hillighen doctoren.
- Additional Title(s):
Biblie mit vlitigher achtinghe: recht na deme latine in dudesck auerghesettet
Title in Incunabula short title catalogue: Biblia (Low German)
Bible. Low German. Lübeck Bible. 1494.- Published/Created:
- [Lübeck] : Steffen Arndes, [19 November 1494]
- Physical Description:
- [984] pages : illustrations ; 38 cm (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0728Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17358918
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Imprint information from colophon, which reads (capitalization and punctuation as in source): Deme alweldigheme gade. deme he[m]melscheme vadere sy vmmetlike danknamicheyt ... myt welkerer hulpe vn[de] vorbiddinghe dyt hilghe werk in ene hulpe der hilghen mene[n] loueschen kerken. mit groter achtinghe vn[de] vlite ghebetert is. vn[de] grundliken auergheseen. Vnde mit dessen erne bokstauen ghedrucket. vnde selichliken vulle[n]bracht. vormiddelst Steffen arndes. in der keyserlike[n] stad lubick Int iar vnses heren M.cccc.xciiij. vp de[n] dach der hilghen wedewen sunte Elizabeth. de dar was de xix. dach des manten Nouembris.
"The third Low German Bible. Presents an independent version as far as 2 Kings vii; thereafter both text and woodcuts are mainly borrowed from the Cologne Bible ... The glosses by Nicolaus de Lyra and by other doctors (especially Hugo de Sancto Victore) are incorporated in the text"--Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. See also: Walther, Wilh. Die deutsche Bibelübersetzung des Mittelalters. Braunschweig, 1889-1892. v. 3, columns 671-676.
Signatures: [a]⁶ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ c̃⁸ A-E⁸ F-G⁶ H-I⁸ kR⁶ L-M⁶ N-O⁸ P-Q⁶ rR⁸ S-Z⁸ 2a-2o⁸ 2p-2q⁶. Leaf [a1] unsigned; leaves [a2-3] signed "ij" and "iij"; leaf kR3 signed "kRiiij"; leaves 2q1-3 signed "2qij", 2qiij", "2qiiij."
Gothic type ( Proctor 2645); 2 columns, 65-67 lines. Running tites.
Illustrations: 151 woodcuts (including repeats), comprising 2 large square cuts (St. Jerome, repeated to 3; creation of Eve); 93 large oblong cuts (repeated to 96); 1 medium-sized square cut repeated to 38; 4 small oblong cuts (the four Evangelists) and 1 small square cut (St. Jerome; repeated to 9). "The cuts, most of which are in the Old Testament, somewhat resemble those in the Cologne, Quentell, ca. 1478, Bibles [low German Bibles known as the Cologne Bibles], but are in no sense copies. About fifty, for the most part in the Pentateuch, are distinctly superior to the others in draftsmanship and conception and are among the most remarkable of the fifteenth century. Their designer is known as the Master of the Lübeck Bible and to him have been ascribed the cuts in the Dance of Death, Lübeck, 1489 ... and, tentatively those in the Lyons, Trechsel, 1493 edition of Terence. The other cuts in the Lübeck Bible are considered to be the work of an inferior artist, influenced by the Master, and possibly working from his rough dummies"--New York Public Library. Spencer Collection. Dictionary catalog and shelf list of the Spencer Collection of illustrated books and manuscripts and fine bindings, 1971. For further discussion, see: Schramm, Albert. Die illustrierten Bibeln der deutschen Inkunabel-Drucker. Leipzig, 1922, pages 17-20.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00638000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 2, page 560 (IC. 9954)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4309
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-638
Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 3143
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3467
BAC Leaf Collection no. 728 Imperfect: 37 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Bible -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Woodcuts.
Incunabula.
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