'Biblia, Das ist die ganze heylige Schrifft Teutsch. Sampt angehenckter Erklärung aller Hebraischer/ Chaldaischer/ Griechischer und Lateinischer Namen vnd Wörter/ so in der Bibel begriffen/ Mit einem neuen Register/Summarien über alle Capitel/vnd schönen Figuren'
Translated by Martin Luther
Printed by in Georg Rab I, Weigand Han (heirs) and Sigmund Feyerabend, in Frankfurt/Main, 1565
Foreword to the Old Testament, register, 316 pp., foreword to the Prophets, 370 pp. register, Chronicle
Numerous woodcut illustrations
Reference: VD 16 B 2760
Dimensions: 36.6 x 26.5 x 12.7 cm
Embossed leather binding with clasps
Compete and in good restored condition

About 70 translations of biblical texts into German are known before the Reformation. German texts of the Bible were widespread not before the prints of the Luther Bible. 1534 Martin Luther had with significant help from Philipp Melanchthon and other theologians rendered the complete texts of the Old and New Testament into German. Under the principle of sola Scribtura (by Scripture alone) Luther oriented itself to the translations of the hebrew originals and not to the templates of the Vulgate. The single books and verses are richly illustrated with woodcuts.

Condition:

The book is complete. Binding and textblock were professionally restored. The pages are slightly toned and foxed. Marginal blemishes, tears and holes were backed. One leaf shows a large ripped-off corner. Spine and joints of the embossed leather binding are restored, the clasps are new. The book measures 36.6 x 26.5 x 12.7 cm. (bed)

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