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162
Sept. 1983
Dr. Eichenberger
Bien wil am See
90SF = $44.33
Biblia (German)
Augsburg: Gunther Zainer 1477 folio
Ref: Goff B629 H3134 BMC II 324, GW 4300
Cop: HEHL(I) NYPL CCXXV
O.T. Chronicles II 35 Das ander buch Der Eferung
Part I. 321 leaves. 2-320 numbered t-CCCXIC. (ends with Psalter)
Part II 332 leaves II-CCCXXXi numbered
2 col. 51 lines + headline (name of book + foliation)
302(313)x194mm Type 118d Capitals (2a, 4a)
Some capital spaces, with guideletters.

Zainer made use of picture initials 73 for his 2 German Bibles. As
a rule, these initials measure about 2 3/4" in width by 3 12/" in ht.
THe woodcuts of the 1st ed. were repeated in the second with very
little variation, but Zainer also added at the end of each volume
of the latter publication a picture which appears to be a
printer's emblem.
- Where the 14 pre-Lutheran High German Bibles are in 2 vol.
the 1st normally concludes with the Psalms, + the 2nd begins with
Proverbs.
- The books are generally presented in the order of the Vulgate +
include the Apocrypha as well as the Old + New Testaments.
The Prayer of Manasses is placed after Chronicles in all
but the Mentel + Eggistein editions, in which it is lacking: and in
the 1st Zaimer Bible it has been printed on a half-leaf normally
inserted between the folios numbered 185 + 186. In the New
Testament, the apocryphal Epistle to the Luodiccare follows
Galatians, + the Book of Acts is placed after the Epistle
to the Hebrews.
-G Zainer (died 1478)
-the 1st dated German Bible