Ein weyse Christlich Mess zu halten vnd zum tisch Gottes zu geben
By: Martinus Luther. Wyttemberg. M.D.xxiiij
Contributors: Agricola, Johann, 1494?-1566; Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553, printer; Döring, Christian, -1533, printer
Publisher: [Lukas Cranach und Christian Döring]
Published: 1524
Place of publication: Wyttemberg [i.e., Wittenberg]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Lutheran Church; Liturgy; Worship; Early works to 1800; Lord's Supper (Liturgy)
Other titles: Weyse Christlich Mess zu halten und zum tisch Gottes zu geben
Notes: First printing of the first German edition of this pamphlet in which Luther deals with the Christian Mass and sets forth the form of Sunday worship and eucharistic observance.

Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁶ (A1b and D6b blank)

At end: "Der Psalmus Deus misereatur nostri" translated into rhymed German by Luther as: "Es wollt vns Gott genedig seyn" (p. D6a) and "Psalmus Laudate Dominu[m] omnes gentes" translated into rhymed German by J. Agricola as: "Frolich wollen wir Alleluia singen."

Title within engraved, historiated, architectural, woodcut border (putti and animals); initials throughout.

Printer from Benzing.

Compare with 03-B1507 (VD 16, L 4735; Benzing, 1707; Gatch, D724) and 03-B1941 (VD 16, L 4739; Benzing, 1701)

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), L 4738

Benzing, J. Lutherbibliographie, 1700

Gatch, M. Library of Leander van Ess, D139

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 553

J. Luther, Titeleinfassungen, 42