Bod-Inc: B-327
Biblia [German]
Analysis of Content
[a2v] ‘Das register úber die bibeln des alten testaments'.
[a2v] ‘Das register des neúwen testaments'.
[a3r] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Die epistel des heyligen priesters sant Jheronimi zů Paulinum von allen goetlichen buoechern der hystori'. Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 1-37.
[a6r] ‘Die vorred in die funff buoecher Moysi'. Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 37-43.
[a7r] [Gn–IV Rg.] Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 44-459; 4 (1907), 1-437; 5 (1908), 1-459. Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum' (`Eyn andere vorred').
[r4r] Hieronymus: ‘Eyn andere vorred úber Paralipomenon'. Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 1-11. Preceded by Prefatio sancti Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (`die vorred úber das bůch Paralipomenon').
[r4v] [I–II Par.] Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 11-251.
[t10v] [OrMan.] Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 415-16.
[t10v] [I–II Esr.] Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 252-342. Preceded by Jerome's preface.
[x1r] [III Esr.] Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 342-401.
[x7r] [Tb–Est.] Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 1-134. Preceded by Jerome's preface.
[z3r] ‘Die vorred úber das bůch Job nach der außlegung der sibentzig außlegern'. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 134-7.
[z2r] [Iob.] ‘Ein andere vorred úber das bůch Job'. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 137-45 and 146-237. Followed by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (`Ein andere vorrede úber das bůch Iob') and Iob.
[A5r] ‘Ein andere vorred úber die weissagung des propheten Dauid'. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 238-42. Preceded by the first of Jerome's prefaces.
[A5r] ‘Ein andere vorred úber den psalter'. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 242-3.
[A5r] [Ps (G).] Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 243-64.
[D6r] [Prv.] Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 1-86. Preceded by Epistola sancti Hieronymi presbyteri ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos de libris Salomonis (`Die vorred Jheronimi úber das bůch der sprúch des weisen kúnigs Salomonis').
[E5v] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi úber d[as] bůch zů latein genennet Ecclesiastes'. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 87-117. Followed by Ecl.
[E9r] [Ct.] Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 117-31.
[E10v] ‘Die vorrede in das bůch der weyßheit'. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 131.
[E10v] [Sap–Is.] Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 132-528. Is preceded by an ‘argumentum' (`Ein andere vorred in den propheten Ysaiam').
[K5v] ‘Eyn andere vorred'. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 1-4. Preceded by Jerome's preface (`Die vorred úber den propheten Jheremiam').
[K5v] [Ier–Lam.] Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 4-223.
[M10v] [Bar.] ‘Die vorrede úber d[as] bůch des weissagen Baruth'. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 223-48. Followed by Bar.
[N3v] [Ez–Mal.] Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 248-523; 10 (1915), 1-141.
[S3v] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . úber die bůcher Machabeorum'. Kurrelmeyer 10 (1915), 142-361. Followed by I–II Mcc.
[X1r] ‘Die vorred úber Matheum'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 1-5.
[X1v] ‘Ein andere vorred úber Matheum den zwelfboten vnd ewangelisten'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 5-6.
[X1v] [Mt.] Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 7-116.
[Y4v] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred úber den ewangelisten Marcum'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 117-20.
[Y5r] [Mc.] Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 121-89.
[Z3v] ‘Die vorred vber den ewangelisten Lucam'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 190-4.
[Z4r] ‘Ein ander vorrede'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 194-5. Not a prologue, but Lc 1,1-4.
[Z4r] [Lc.] Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 195-330.
[aa8r] ‘Die vorred úber Iohannem den ewangelisten'. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 331-4.
[aa8v] [Io.] Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 335-423.
[bb9r] ‘Die vorred úber Paulum'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 1-6.
[bb10r] ‘Ein ander vorred'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 6-10.
[bb10v] [Rm.] Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 10-60. Preceded by an ‘argumentum' (`Aber ein ander vorred').
[cc6r] [I Cor–Hbr]. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 60-277. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (`vorred').
[ff2r] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred in das bůch der wúrckung der .xii. botten'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 277-8 n. 53.
[ff2r] ‘Die ander vorred'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 278-410. Followed by Act.
[gg6r] ‘Die vorrede in die epistolas canonicas'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 410-11.
[gg6v] [Iac–Iud.] ‘Die ander vorrede in die epistel canonica sant Iacobs'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 412-69. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (`vorred').
[hh3r] [Apc.] ‘Die vorred úber das bůch der heymlichen offenbarung'. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 470-528. Followed by Apc.
[hh10r] [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Augsburg: [Günther Zainer, not after 1474]. Folio.
Remarks: For dating see note in BMC reprint, referring to presentation of a copy in 1474, and Sack, Freiburg.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b8 c8+1 d–s10 t10+1 v–z A–S10 T V8 X–Z aa–hh10].
Illustrations: 76 woodcut historiated initials at the beginning of each book; see Walter Eichenberger and Henning Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther. Die Buchkunst der achtzehn deutschen Bibeln zwischen 1466 und 1522 (Hamburg [1977]), 29-38.
References
ISTC: ib00627000
GW: GW 4298 (+ Anm.);
Hain: H *3133;
Goff: Goff B‑627;
BMC: BMC II 323;
Proctor: Pr 1577;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑485; Oates 887; Sack, Freiburg, 674-5; Schramm II 19 and 24; Schreiber V 3456; Sheppard 1161-2; Karl Stackmann, ‘Die Bedeutung des Beiwerks für die Bestimmung der Gebrauchssituation vorlutherischer deutscher Bibeln', De captu lectoris. Wirkungen des Buches im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert dargestellt an ausgewählten Handschriften und Drucken, Festschrift Wieland Schmidt, ed. Wolfgang Milde and Werner Schuder (Berlin, 1988), 273-88, at 282-3; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 9-11; VL VI 1276-90, at 1282-3.
LCN: 14002893
Copies
Copy number: B-327(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
The second of the two settings of [M1]–[V8] (fols cccxxxvi–ccccxxi) recorded in GW Anm.
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin (Schunke–Schwencke: Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt; David Rogers: Augsburg, ‘Head-over-heels binder') over bevelled wooden boards; rubbings of the binding and of individual stamps are reproduced in David Rogers, ‘A Glimpse into Günther Zainer's Workshop at Augsburg', Buch und Text im 15. Jahrhundert/ Books and Text in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Lotte Hellinga and Helmar Härtel, Wolfenbüttler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, 2 (1981), 145-63, pls IV–V. Two bosses, four corner-pieces on each cover, and two clasps lost. Book-label at the head of the upper cover lost. On both covers triple fillets form three concentric frames; the inner rectangle is divided into lozenge-shaped compartments. In the inner rectangle, a lozenge-shaped stamp with a dog; in the frames, a large lozenge-shaped stamp with a pomegranate (Rogers no. 9; Schwenke–Schunke 121, no. 136: Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt), a smaller lozenge-shaped stamp with the head of Christ (Schwenke–Schunke 83, no. 10: Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers no. 8), a square lamb-and-flag stamp (Schwenke–Schunke 152 no. 22: Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers no. 6), a set of four square Evangelist stamps (Schwenke–Schunke 96 no. 24: Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers nos 1-4), a rosette stamp (Rogers no. 5); a palmette stamp (Rogers no. 11) and stamped scrolls with the inscription: ‘AUE MARIA' (Rogers no. 5); for descriptions of similar bindings on other books printed by Zainer, see Rogers, ‘Zainer's Workshop', 150-1, and pl. VI.
Size: 495 × 330 × 185 mm.
Size of leaf: 475 × 327 mm.
Pastedowns, consisting of a ‘pull', printed on one side only, of Johannes de Fonte, Compendium librorum Sententiarum. [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1475-6], were extracted in Feb. 1975, and placed in a modern guard-book; see J‑154(2). See also Rogers, ‘Zainer's Workshop'.
Early German marginal notes, mainly from Iob onwards. On [hh10v] a list in German in an early hand indicating liturgical lessons.
A few woodcut initials painted in several colours.
Provenance: Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Y 4.6.
Copy number: B-327(2)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
The second of the two settings of [M1]–[V8] (fols cccxxxvi–ccccxxi) recorded in GW Anm.
Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, two bosses, four corner-pieces on each cover lettered ‘Heirch Meosli 1577'; two clasps, one of which has recently been repaired, but is now partly lost. On both covers fillets form seven concentric frames. In the central compartments a triangular ornamental stamp; in the frames stamped floral and ornamental rolls.
Size: 465 × 310 × 145 mm.
Size of leaf: 445 × 292 mm.
On [hh10r] a note in German in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand on early editions of the Bible (1448-1518).
Historiated initials are supplied in several colours. On [a3r] floral extensions into the inner and upper margins in blue, green, and magenta with some gold dotting.
Provenance: Leonhard Rissius (fl. 1588); on [a3r] an inscription: ‘Leonhardus Rissij Lucer Orthodox'. Inspection note on [a2r] by Amandus von Niderhofen of Altdorf (†c.1566), Canton Uri, Switzerland: ‘Besechen vß Beuelch vnser herren vnd gŮtt erkent durch Amandum von Niderhofenn vnd Hanßen zum [ ]'. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘M.h.6': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 1930. Purchased for £3. 6. 0, via Parker, from Theodor Weigel (Catalogue (1856), no. 180); see Library Bills (1856-8), 130v and Books Purchased (1856), 9.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Y 4.7.
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