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[email protected] – WWW.ERASMUSHAUS.CH 1 BIBLIA GERMANICA. Hie hebet an das Register über die Bibel des ersten teyls (das ander tayl). Augsburg, [Günther Zainer], 1477. 2 volumes folio (404x280 mm). 321 ll. (= [1], CCCVIIII, [1]); 332 (= [1], II-CCCXXXI, [1]). With 72 large historiated woodcut initials (three repeated) and numerous smaller initials with floral design; woodcut printer’s device at the end of both parts. Second volume opening with a gilt and illuminated initial with tendrils and with the first woodcut in con- temporary colouring, lombards supplied in red (partially in the first vol. and throughout in the second vol.), and floral initials heightened in red. Binding: contemporary calf over wooden boards with diverging blind-tooling, with 8 (of 16) engraved brass corner pieces and 4 catches; straps and clasps renewed. Spine of first volume restored, some worming in the margins. With some old marginalia in German. Provenance: Oettingen Wallerstein Library with stamp on some leaves. – Sammlung Adam, auctioned by Tenner, Heidelberg 1980, n° 708. References: GW 4300; BMC II 324; BSB-Ink B-487; Hain 3134; Proctor 1550; Schramm II, 19-20 and plates 609-681; Hind II, 290-291; Polain 276; Goff B-629; Schreiber 3458; Stuttgart Bible Catalogue 2.1, E 12 B; Eichenberger/Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther, 53-57; Römer, Bibelhandschriften – Bibel- drucke. Gutenbergbibel in Offenburg (1980), n° 13; Zehnacker 422; Schulze, Deutsche Bibeln (1934), p. 17; Fujii, Günther Zainers drucksprachliche Leistung (2007), p. 79, n° 12.