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Sept. 1983
Dr. Eichenberg
Bien wil am See
75SF = $36.95
Biblia (German)
Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 20 June 1477 folio.
Ref: Goff B-630 HC3155 BMC II 344 GW 4301. Schreiber 3459.
Cop: HEHL, NYPL. IGI1711
Dem Psalter Old Testament David. in dem lxxxiii-lxxxvii (84-88)
Part I 267 leaves. (ends with Psalter)
Part II 295. (330x245mm)
Part I. 2 col. 55 lines (56+57) + headline (name of books)
285(295)x190mm Type: 103 Cpaitals Ia, Ib, 2
with woodcuts (76) + large woodcut initials (Maiblumen style) (52x52mm) at Chapter header.
A large number of the woodcuts in this book are the sam
as those of Pflanzmann's undated German Bible
about 1475 but in different order.
-Pflanzmann's Bible contains 57 pictures from about 21 blocks,
most of them being repeated in Sorg I, which also, however,
gives evidence of drawing fairly heavily upon other sources.
In fact, Sorg I seems even to have based a fwe of its
pictures upon Zainer I, although not adapting or introducing
picture initials.
-7th German Bible - the test + most of the cuts are based
pn Pflanzmann's Bible fo c. 1475. However, the printer
Anton Sorg, had 23 new cuts of the same size made
especially for this ed. whil omitting 4 of the pflanzmann
cuts. The result was as Schribir points out, that the
general effect of this Bible surpasses that of the earlier one.
Type 103 Large text type used up to the end of 1477.
Indistinguishable from SS Ulrich + Afria of the same
measurement except that the round brackets cocasionally
used by Sorg do not seem to be found in the other
2 forms of N + R.