Accession number:
PML 199355
Published:
Gedruckt zu Wittemberg : Durch Georgen Rhawen Erben, 1551.
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
[6], 576, [1] leaves ; 31 cm (fol)
Notes:
Second issue of volume 2 of Luther's collected works issued in 12 volumes: Erste[-zwelffte] Teil der Bücher D. Mart. Luth.; volume 2 first published in 1548, reissued again along with other volumes in 12 v. from 1550-1559, with the imprint varying between the volumes.
Title printed in red and black, with a woodcut of Luther and Friedrich III of Saxony kneeling below the Crucifixion.
"Vorrede" signed: Georgius Rorarius.
Gothic type, 50 lines plus headline.
Signatures: *⁶ A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Zzz Aaaa-Zzzz AAaa-CCcc⁶ DDdd⁸: 583 leaves (of 584, with DDdd7 blank, without DDdd8 blank).
Exhibited: Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Fürstenberg, 30 September, Paris, item 70.
Binding:
Contemporary Dresden binding of red morocco gilt (310 x 222 mm), made by Jakob Weidlich (EBDB w003975) for Nicolaus von Ebeleben, covers richly gilt with interlacing frames, numerous small leafy and star stamps, outer gilt border of leafy columns, title lettered in gilt on upper cover DER AND TEIL D MARTTI LVTH, owner's name on lower cover NICKEL VON EBELEB, spine gilt in compartments, red edges gilt and gauffered, stubs from two pairs of wide red silk ties. Ebeleben had a set of Luther's works in twelve volumes bound in red or brown morocco; eight volumes survive, including the present volume (number two), of which five are in similar red morocco bindings by Weidlich, and six of the twelve were still together in 1929. Other volumes from the set are now in Yale University (volume 3), Dresden (volume 7), Schweinfurt (volume 10), and the British Library (volume 11; Davis Gift II, 335).
Provenance:
Nikolas von Ebeleben (1514-1579), name on binding; Charterhouse of Gaming (Lower Austria), inscription on title-page (dissolved in 1782); Librairie Gumuchian & Cie., their small purple G inkstamp on lower pastedown, Catalogue de reliures (Paris, [1929]), item 41; Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red gilt booklabel, and exhibition label; Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 401/1 (New York, 1979), item 35; Christie's Rome, 16 June 2005, lot 141. acquisition: Purchased in 2007 from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1154.
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