Details

Subject(s)

• Heinrich der Jüngere, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1489-1568 [Browse]
• Reformation—Germany—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

• Lufft, Hans, 1495-1584 [Browse]

Notes

• First printing of one of the most famous of Luther's polemical tracts. Luther's prince, John Frederick the Magnanimous, together with Luther, himself, had been attacked in print by Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Duke Henry was among the bitterest antagonists of Luther and his followers. "Wider Hans Worst" is Luther's satyrical response to the duke.
• Name of printer from colophon.
• Colophon: Gedrückt zu Wittemberg durch Hans Lufft. MD.XLI.
• Printer's device on p. [126] at end.
• Includes 64th Psalm.
• Signatures: A-Q⁴.
• Title within wood-engraved, historiated (putti), architectural border.
• Initials.
• Last leaf blank.
• Imperfect copy: Last leaf lacking.
• Interleaved. Blank leaves included in paging.

References

• Benzing, Lutherbibliographie 3369
• VD 16 L 7520
• Luther, J. Titeleinfassungen der Reformation 41

Place name(s)

Germany Wittenberg.

Other title(s)

Bible. O.T. Psalms LXIV. German. Luther. 1541.

OCLC

40342680

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