Testament vnnd Abgschrifft der zwölff Patriarchen, der Sünen Jacobs : Wie ein yeder vor synem end seine kinder geleert, vn[d] zur forcht Gottes auch gottsäligem läben vermant hat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Apiarius, Mathias, approximately 1500-1554, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. German

Language:

German

Penn Provenance:

Reitwinkler, Theobald (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Lobenstein, Johannes (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

240 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Testament unnd Abgschrifft der zwölff Patriarchen, der Sünen Jacobs

Fingerprint:

e-r- nser zua- RuEn (C) 1554 (A)

Place of Publication:

Getruckt in der Loblichen Stat Bern[n] : Durch Mathiam Apiarium : In kosten vnnd verlegu[n]g Iacobi Ciriaci säligen Erben, Im 1554. Iar.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf V6v.

Signatures: A-V⁶.

Without pagination.

Title in red and black within inhabited woodcut border; woodcut illustrations and printer's device.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Denck, Hans. Theologia Teutsch. Gedruckt zu Franckfort am Meyn : Bey Dauid Schöffeln ..., 1555.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. inscription ("Iohannes Lobenstein conda[...]"), partially struck through, at head of front pastedown; ms. date ("ao. 1554.") in another hand on front pastedown; illegible, partially effaced early ms. inscription at head of front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("No 474") in head outer corner of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has engraved armorial bookplate, identified in ms. in pencil as that of "Theobald Reitwinkler Abt. Aldersbach u. Vilshofen 1745" -- i.e. Theobald Reitwinkler (1705-1779), abbot (1745-1779) of Kloster Aldersbach, a German Cistercian house -- on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled leather over indented, angled-edge wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; illegible ms. label at head of spine; 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in head inner corner of leaves V1-V6.

Cited in:

VD 16 T 583

OCLC:

781538326