Biblia : das ist, Die ganze Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments : wie solche von ... Martin Luther ... im Jahr Christi 1522 in unsere teutsche Mutter Sprache zu übersetzen angefangen und anno 1534 zu Ende gebracht worden, samt dessen Vorreden, Glossen und Parallel-Stellen, über dies so wohl mit des seel. Herrn Lutheri und seines Geschlechts, als andern Bildnissen nebst derenselben Lebens-Läufen und verschiedenen ganz neu verfertigten schönen Kupfer-Tafeln ausgezieret : ingleichen sind zu Ende dieses ganzen Bibel-Werks, nebst der unveränderten Augspurgischen Confession, die biblische Zeit-Rechnungen und unterschiedliche nützliche Register beygedruckt worden : vormals mit einer Vorrede Herrn Johann Michael Dillherrns herausgegeben, nun aber aufs neue mit allem Fleis besorgt, mit einigen kurzen Anmerkungen und erbaulichen Nutz-Anwendungen versehen und mit einer Vorrede begleitet von Herrn Andreas Rehberger ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

Dilherr, Johannes Michael, 1604-1669.

Johann Andreas Endters seel. Söhne, printer.

Standardized Title:

Bible. German. Luther. 1765.

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Hebrew

Genre:

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Schwartzman, Daniel (former owner) (RBC copy)

Schwartzman, Dorothy (donor) (RBC copy)

Morrison, Alan (inscription) (RBC copy)

Saalbach, Raymond C. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Westlake, Neda M. (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

65 unnumbered pages, 4-256 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 257-766 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 767-1010 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1011-1210, 1213-1217, 1216-1252 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 2-166 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 167-388 pages, 68 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Ganze Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments

Fingerprint:

ieen usin h.ey 10ti (3) 1765 (A)

Place of Publication:

Nürnberg : Im Verlag der Johann Andreä Endterischen Handlung, 1765.

Notes:

A reissue of the "Weimar Bible" published by Endter in 1736, containing additional preliminary materials.

The New Testament has separate signatures and pagination and special dated title leaf which reads: Das Neūe Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi, nach der Ubersetzung Herrn Doctor Martin Luthers seel. mit Dessen Lehr-reichen Vorreden, eingeruckten Glossen unde richtigsten Parallel-Stellen, wie auch eines jeden Capitels Abtheilungen und Summarien, ingleichen mit erbaulichen Nutz-Anwendungen versehen. Nürnberg, Im Verlag der Johann Andreä Endterischen Handlung, 1765.

Signatures: a-d⁴ e1 (*)-(2*)⁶ A⁴(A1+chi²) B-2I⁴ 2chi² 2K-5C⁴ 5D⁴(5D3+3chi²) 5E-6L⁴ 6M⁴(6M1+4chi²) 6N-7R⁴ 7̃S⁶ )(⁴ chi² *A-*U⁴ *X⁴(*X3+5chi²) *Y-*3B⁴ *3C² *a-*g⁴ *i² (leaf *i2 blank; leaf *a1 signed "a").

General title leaf and special title leaf for the New Testament in red and black.

Added engraved title leaves for Old Testament and New Testament; engraved illustrations and plates.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Initials.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: leaf *i2 (blank) wanting.

RBC copy was formerly owned by Daniel Schwartzman (1908-1977) and presented to the Penn Libraries by his wife, Dorothy Schwartzman (née Kemler; 1913-1999), in 1979.

RBC copy has laid in typescript letter ([2] leaves) dated 16 April 1979 on letterhead of the University of Pennsylvania from Raymond C. Saalbach to Neda Westlake regarding the provenance of this volume (with ms. note in pencil on first leaf: "Ok - acknowledged + appraised by Alan Morison [sic]").

RBC copy has sheet (38 x 46 cm.) with early engraving of a document being read aloud to a Habsburg monarch and his court (the figures numbered, but without a key), torn and mended on verso at all edges, laid in; portion of an 18th-century leaf with woodcut illustration and caption (Genesis 28:20-21) printed by Gottfried Hoffmann of Waldenburg, with early ms. notes on verso; scrap of red silk fabric laid in.

RBC copy bound in full leather over beveled edge wooden boards; 2 metal fore-edge catchplates and evidence of 2 leather (and metal?) fore-edge clasps; 5 raised bands on spine.

RBC copy: a few leaves at beginning of volume dampstained; leaf *b1 mended at tail margin; leaf *h2 mended at fore-edge; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf *h4 excised; leaf *h4 mended at tail margin; leaf *h5 torn and partially mended at tail outer corner.

RBC copy: backstrip wanting; boards mended at hinges.

Contains:

Augsburg Confession. German.

OCLC:

3802978