Annotationes Hieronimi Emsers, vber Luthers Newe Testame[n]t : ytzt tzum vierden mal vbersehen, welche auch mit dem Newen Testament, so Emser seliger verdeutschet, vnd am Jüngsten gedruckt, aussgangen sind, ym 1529 yhar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emser, Hieronymus, 1478-1527.

Contributor:

Schumann, Valentin, -1542, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--German--Luther.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament--Commentaries.

Bible. New Testament.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

Fornerus, Johannes (inscription)

Stift Göttweig (Steinaweg, Austria) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, CLXXIIII leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Annotationes Hieronimi Emsers, uber Luthers Newe Testament

Fingerprint:

nnnd llch w-ey auch (3) 1529 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zu Leypsig : Durch Valten Schuman, Im yar MDXXIX [1529]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf [superscript pi]A4r.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-Y⁸.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut title vignette, illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf Y8 (blank?) wanting.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1958.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early ms. inscription ("Ioanni Fornero S. Theol: D. et canonico ad S. Stef[...?] Servor[...?]") of a canon, possibly of Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Alessandria, Italy), in brown ink on title leaf; early ms. ownership inscription ("Monast Gottwic[ensis]") of Stift Göttweig (Steinaweg, Austria) in brown ink at foot of title leaf; some early ms. marginal annotations in brown ink on title leaf and in text.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: leaves I8v-K2r have paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining of printed marginalia supplied by a reader in red.

Penn Libraries copy: illustration on verso of title leaf partially hand-colored by a reader in yellow and green; initial on leaf I8v hand-colored by a reader in red.

Penn Libraries copy bound in early full blind-tooled pig over beveled and indented wooden boards. Upper board has central panel with figures of Faith (holding crucifix and chalice with host) and Hope (hands clasped in prayer, looking at small figure of God in clouds above) seated face to face within an oval frame with motto: IMPETRAT IMA FIDES CHRISTO QVAM DANTE SATEM EX SPES ANIMOSA SOLET (i.e. Impetrat alma fides Christo quam Dante salutem expectare soror spes animosa solet.), the whole in a rectangular frame with figures of the 4 cardinal virtues at corners, each with banner: IVSTI (Justitia), PRV (Prudentia), TEMP (Temperantia), and FORT (Fortitudo). Lower board has central panel with illustration of Jacob's ladder (Genesis 28:10-21): in the foreground, Jacob dreams beneath a tree in the wilderness; above him, 2 winged angels climb the ladder toward the robed half-figure of God in the clouds; in the background is a city and another small figure of Jacob pouring oil on a square stone altar marked "H B". Three raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels with evidence of ms. in panel at head of spine. Two leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates. All edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with occasional damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

VD 16 E1094

OCLC:

29146110