Icones catecheseos et virtvtvm ac uitiorum illustratae numeris Iohannis Hofferi cobergensis
Subtitle: item. Historia passionis domini nostri Iesu Christi effigiata
Contributors: Lucius, Jakob, ca. 1530-1597
Publisher: Excvdebat Iohannes Crato; [Für Samuel Selfisch]
Published: 1558
Place of publication: Vitebergae
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Vices in art; Latin; Virtues in art; Passion; Lutheran Church; Catechisms
Notes: Printer from colophon. Publisher from VD16.

"Verba Christi, ex secvndo libro Christiados H. Vide [i.e. Marco Girolamo Vida]"--D7v-D8r.

"De lavro, elegia Iohannis Hofferi ad Iohannem Schosservm, poetam lavreatvm"--Leaves D8v-E2v.

Illustrations: 77 half-page woodcuts, apparently by Jakob Lucius, whose initials I.L.C.T. appear on A8r. On this page there also appear the initials D.B., apparently those of the draughtsman, with the date 1557; see Thieme-Becker. Printer's device on t.p. and, in an elaborate cartouche, at the colophon.

Signatures: A-F⁸.

VD16 H 4116

Landwehr, J.  German emblem books, 348

Beginning with leaf E3, there are captions in German as well as Latin.

Binding: polished calfskin. Boards, edges of boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt with double fillets. Author, title and imprint in gilt on two red spine labels. The binding is signed on lower front turn-in by P. Bedford. Page edges gilt.

Centered on front pastedown is bookplate with legend: Ex Mvsaeo Hvthii. Facing it on front free endpaper is a bookplate with initials BL.