Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Old Testament—Illustrations [Browse]
• Bible New Testament—Illustrations [Browse]
• Wood-engraving, German [Browse]

Medium/​Support

4to. rdabf

Notes

• Title woodcut frame with six scenes from Exodus.
• Monogram of Sebald Beham on title page.
• Eighty woodcuts (mostly 50 x 72 mm, two 72 x 50 mm).
• In some instances superscript e is used in place of an umlaut. Virgules used in the text in place of commas.
• Signatures: A-K⁴.
• Seventy-five Old Testament and five New Testament blocks each have a one-line legend in German and a concise biblical reference.
• Princeton copy 1 Two small blank marginal worm holes, stamp erased from the title; early signature of J. Choul, 16th-/17th-century signature of Oratorian Benedictus Magnard, stamp of Otto Schäfer (1912-2000).

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Contemporary blind-decorated calf binding (rebacked, corners worn), outer portrait and foliage frame, lilies in the corners, central ornament of a column braced by leaves, evidence of four ties.

OCLC

1568963660

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