Die Bibel
Series: Incunabula -- BC 85
Publisher: ... Gedruckt durch hannsen schönsperger ...
Published: 1487
Place of publication: Augspurg [Augsburg]
Language: ger
Translated from: lat; heb; arc; grc
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Versions; Early works to 1800; Bible
Other titles: Biblia [German]
Work titles: Bible German 1487
Notes: Title from colophon: "Dises durchleüchtigist werck der ganzen heyligen geschrÿfft genant die bibel ..."

Imprint from colophon: "Gedruckt durch hannsen schönspergerin der löblichen keyserlichen reychstat Augspurg. Nach der geburt cristi des geseczs der genaden vierzehenhundert vnd in de[m] .lxxxvij. jar. an sant Vrbans tag. Vmb wölich volbringung ... " [25 May 1487]

Gothic type (Proctor 1765); 2 columns, 48 lines.

Collation: [v. 1:] cccxcviii[i.e. cccxcix⁻ f. [v. 2:] 1 l., cccc-cccccccxcix[i.e. cccci-cccccccc] f., 1 l. [v. 2,] first and last leaves blank.

Several folios wrongly numbered.

The eleventh German Bible. In double columns, 48 lines to a full column.

Illustrations: 109 woodcuts, comprising 88 in [v. 1] and 21 (including one repeat in [v. 2]; ornamental initials in several sizes. The last cut in each volume is signed with the monogram Hb, the identification of which as that of Hans Bämler (cf. Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisien. München, 1858-79. v. 3, p. 203-204) is denied in Thieme-Becker, II, 340. With the exception of a cut representing Job and his friends, the cuts are reduced copies of those in the Cologne, Quentell, ca. 1478 and the Augsburg, Koberger, 1483 Bibles. It has been thought that the designs for the original woodcuts were copied from paintings in churches and monasteries, but Rudolf Kautzsch has traced them to a manuscript.--cf. his: Die Holzschnitte der Kölner Bibel von 1479. Strassburg, 1896.

Goff, B-634.

ISTC, ib00634000.

IG, 497.

GW, 4305.

Hain, 3139.

Schreiber, 3463.

Darlow and Moule, 4184.

Walther, v. 1, col. 117 no. 11.

Schramm, A. Die illustrierten Bibeln der deutschen Inkunabel-Drucker, p. 17.

Bodleian Library, Oxford University [Auct. V.3.12,13] Oxford England enk.

In German.