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May'80
Madliger -Schwab
60 SF = $36.80
Biblia Germanica low Saxon (low German)
Lubeck : Steffen Arndes , 19 Nov. 1494
Goff B638 HCR 3143 BMC II 560 GW 4309(+ var)
Cop HEHL ( 2 , 1 var) signature c ii (in error) O.T. Kings I : 20
folio , 492 leaves , 2 col. (65-67) 66 lines & headline , 305 (320)x200 mm
Types 172 title , headings on 1b- 6b, headline on 6b ;
165 , other headlines & headings : 92 text . Capitals (1,2,3,4 )
[inserted]unusually rich assortment of decorative initials.[end inserted]
97 woodcuts which including repititions 152 total
- woodcuts . The headlines give the names of the books.
92 text - ornate Schwabacher [inserted](reflects upper Rhenish influence)[end inserted] Type of a style much
used in the 16th C . It much resembles Reger (Wm) 91
In use 1494 , 96, 97 .Two forms of A, D,E, S, & k .

[inserted]a native of Hamberg Mayence?[end inserted]
Steffon Arndes 3rd Press - after previously working in
Perugia (1481) & in Schleswig (1486) Arndes settled in
Lubeck in 1487 & continued to print in that city
until 1519. (d. 1515/16 0r 1519 38.7 x 29 cm

In 1494 low German bible (low Saxon) was published at Lubech a huge work
of over a million words , so it includes a good deal of Lyra's gloss .
It has close affinities - the Cologne bible & hence - the low German
tradition generally . But - this work we come to the end of the
low German tradition as far as Germany proper is concerned .
Northern Germany was irresistibly drawn into the High German
orbit , & High German est. itself first as a literary medium
& later as a spoken language .
- illustrations [inserted]are among the most remarkable of x v c design . They mark a new departure from the old style.[end inserted] of exceptional merit , far more sephisticated
than those of the Cologne bible - but as a whole the
Lubeck Bible was less successful than the Cologne Bible , and
had less effect on subsequent Bible production .