Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko Folio, (30 cm x 18 cm x 13 cm), Collation Below, Jürgen Richolff, , 1540-1541

We are pleased to offer an example of one of the great cultural treasures of and a truly historically important pu ble printed in 1541. The only complete Bible printed in Sweden in the entire 16th century and the first to contain the e anslation of Luther's German Bible was pivotal in the establishment of the modern . The translation was rection of the Swedish Reform clergymen Laurentius Andreae (Lars Andersson, 1470-1552), (1493-1552) an Petri (1499-1573) with the blessing of King Gustav I or Gustav Vasa (1496-1560). The Bible's publication helped to c with Rome and the central role of in Sweden which in turn strengthened his hold on power in a turbulent er ambitious typographical undertaking ever attempted in Sweden, the trio of clergymen enlisted the aid of the German pri 1573). As noted in his exhaustive work Swedish Books 1280-1967 the scholar Sten G. Lindberg notes that the Lübeck base Uppsala where he: "brought new type material, the Teuerdanck Fraktur for headlines and a Wittenberg Schwabacher for the text, and more fferent sizes, thus introducing the typographical resources of the German High renaissnace into Sweden. He also broug ocks, mainly from Wittenberg, for the sumpttuous illustrations: an architectural title-frame, a cricifix, the arms of the Re xt. Of these 7 are originals by Lucas Cranach the Elder and 4 by his pupils, 3 by Georg Lemberger and the rest copies tdorfer, the monogrammist AW and DS, and from Lemberger's series of Apocalypse-illustrations for the first Wittenber eceding description the Bible presents an extraordinary collection of early 16th century woodcut illustrations, some of wh Bible also contains the first printed map in Sweden - the famous "Daniel's Dream Map" or "Wittenberg World" map. As th ues throughout that we outline in this exhaustive summary, but overall there is much to commend the preservation of will make a cornerstone addition to any library, private or institutional.

work with the aforementioned "Daniel's Dream Map" woodcut which appears on leaf on the verso of leaf CIIII in the Bo alf page on the leaf) and is trimmed just beyond left neatline but is essentially complete. The woodcut, also known as th in 1529 and is generally attributed to the printer Hans Lufft (1495-1584). We find a rather basic Ptolema asts from King Belshazzar's dream from Chapter 7 of the book of Daniel. At upper right we see the first beast "like a lio st, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth o upper left "a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was rrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue wi at were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little hor first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking gr strations, we first examine the contributions of the master Georg Lemberger (1490-1540). First we find his magnificent armour as well as the dress of the party as depicted. The image size is 22.5 cm x 15 cm (sheet size 28 cm x 18 cm). are not performing any repairs to the Bible as we suspect the purchaser will want to pursue full professional restoration

er's remarkable skill in the medium of the woodcut, with detail here rivalling that of early copperplate engraving. Note right: he same size is Lemberger's imaginative portrayal of Job in dialogue with his three "friends" Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad athite while various calamities including "the fire of God which fell from the sky" wipe out Job's prosperity in the backg

we find the parties in renaissance costume - these two Biblical portraits are rightly considered among Lemberger's finest wo the woodblock for the title page of the Bible to Lemberger. While it is loose, torn, truncated, damaged and soiled its ver Bible is a rarity.

ide the columns while the identity of the seated figures as angels is not evident at first glance given their corpulence an