Description
Das ist, Ausslegung der Episteln und Evangelien, auff alle Sontage und furnembste Fest, durchs gantze jar, itzund auffs new gemehrt und gebessert.
2 parts in 1 volume
Wittenberg, Zacharias Lehmann (for S. Selfisch) ; 1583
With woodcut title page and about 80 large text woodcuts.
3 (of 4) lvs., 208 (of 210), 471 (of 473) numbered leaves.
Restored leather over wooden boards.
(Signs of use, the clasps are missing).
- VD 16, H 57. Nagler II, 2487. Bartsch IX, 218. -
Rare.
According to Nagler, the illustrations by an unknown master from the school of Cranach the Younger and first published in Luther's Haus-Postilla (Wittenberg, Rhau for Selfisch) 1563
Signs of wear, leaves 189 and 190 in the first part are missing, (188, 191 and 192 underlying with loss of text), as well as leaves 259 and 260 in the second part.
Leaf 473 only fragmentarily preserved, title leaf underlying with missing margins, leaf 322 incorporated into the manuscript, the woodcut on leaf 155 of the first part with face of the devil scratched out.
Small folio: 8.5 by 13 inches
Text in German
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1583 ILLUSTRATED POSTILLA antique 80 WOODCUTS CRANACH SCHOOL ARTIST
Estimate $2,000-$2,500
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