Biblia, das ist, Die gantze Schrifft, Altes vnd Newes Testaments Teutsch D. Martin Luthers
By: auff gnädige Verordnung dess durchleuchtigen, hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn, Herrn Ernsts, Hertzogen zu Sachsen ... von etlichen reinen Theologen ... erkläret ... ; darbey auch ... verbesserte biblische Register ... ; ist auch zu End neben den christlichen Haubt-Symbolis mit beygedruckt worden ein kurtzer vnd schöner Bericht von der Augspurgischen Confession, sambt den Artickeln der Confession selbsten wie sie in dem rechten Original, so im Iahr 1530, Käiser Carl dem Fünfften vberantwort worden, begriffen sind.
Contributors: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
Publisher: Gedruckt vnd verlegt durch Wolffgang Endter
Published: 1644
Place of publication: Nürnberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 1020
Other titles: Biblia.; Gantze Schrifft, Altes und Newes Testaments Teutsch D. Martin Luthers.
Notes: The 2nd (slightly revised) ed. of the so-called Weimar Bible, first published in 1641 and described in G.W. Panzer's Litterarische Nachricht von den allerältesten gedruckten deutschen Bibeln (1777), p. 189-198.
Signatures: engraved t.p. (a)⁶ (b)⁸ (c)-(d)⁶ (e)⁴ (f)⁸ (g)-(i)⁶ (k)⁸ A-4Q⁶ a-2h⁶ 2i⁴ 2)(⁸(-2)(8) 3)(⁴. 3)(4 blank?; wanting in LC copy. Each section has separate unsigned, disjunct engraved t.p., 6 total: after (k)⁶, after Q4, after 3C1, after 4B6, after 4Q6, after q5.
Includes indexes.
LC copy: t.p. torn, with slight loss of printer's name and device; minor damage to some leaves; engraved t.p., dated 1643, wanting, as are the following plates called for by Panzer: the 1st 2 maps of Jerusalem, route of the patriarchs, 2 maps showing route of Christ and route of the Apostles. Loosely inserted at end is an illustration of the tabernacle and the 12 tribes of Israel, not called for by Panzer and not included in the plate count.
Source: Gift of Thomas Todsen, July 22, 1992.