Das newe Testament
By: Doct. Martinus Luther.
Contributors: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Bible Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Gedruckt durch Hans Lufft
Published: 1553
Place of publication: Wittemberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 479
Notes: LC copy has stamp on t.p.: Dr. Plochman; hand- colored illustrations and initials, possibly by a 19th century owner; all edges gilt and gauffered.
Number 256 repeated in the foliation.
Signatures: A⁴ B-Z⁸ a-i⁸ k¹⁰ l-z⁸ 2A-2P⁸ 2Q⁸(-2Q7,8); k10 is blank.
Title page printed in red and black has large woodcut of the crucifixion with kneeling figures, (Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony, and Martin Luther) on either side.
LC copy probably lacks four preliminary leaves, A5-A8; the A gathering leaves are all mounted with uncertain conjugacy. Text of 2Q6 recto mounted on inserted fold (replacing blank leaves 2Q7-2Q8?).
LC copy has full leather binding, blind and gold-stamped, with supralibros sun device (with illegible word, possibly in Hebrew letters).