Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - ILLUSTRATED WITH FRONTISPIECE AND 67 WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT -SPANGENBERG (Johann, German Protestant theologian, 1484-1550).Postilla, das ist gründliche und deutliche Auslegung der Evangelien und Episteln auff alle Sonn-, Fest- und Apostel-Tage durchs gantze Jahr ... ; samt einer Vorrede Martini Lutheri und angeh. Historie von der Zerstörung Jerusalem, ... nebst noch hundert christlichen Lebens-Regelng...(Mühlhausen): Tobias David Brückner, 1728. Later edition. 760pp. Engraved frontispiece (recto blank), title (verso blank), [4], 760pp. Two blank endpapers at front, none at rear. Full blind-stamped calf binding, over thick wooden boards, with remnants of metal clasps. Ex-libris 'Johann Christoph Mullart' with his ownership inscription dated 1740 in brown ink on front endpaper (and one other). Fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Size: stout 4to (22.5cm x 18.2cm x 7cm).Good only condition. Binding worn, with overall rubbing and some marking to leather. Contents shaken, with a few gatherings working loose from binder's string. Rear hinge cracked, revealing inside of spine. Metal clasps defective. Creasing to spine, and fraying to leather at foot of spine and front board. Front endpapers used for a manuscript description (dated 1842) titled 'Trinitatis 1557 in Mülhausen'. Some light fraying to edges of f/piece and title page. MS note on rear of title page dated 1857. Intermittent browning to pages. Final leaf detached and frayed to top edge, with some loss of lettering. Ocassional scattered small stains or handling marks. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A rare edition of this Lutherian postil (bible commentary) by Johann Spangenberg in a form of High German, published by Tobias Brückner at his press in Mülhausen in 1728. This work went through a number of regional editions in the 17th and 18th centuries. A very similar edition, with almost identical layout, was published in Minden in 1705, however the woodcut illustrations for the present edition were entirely re-engraved by Brückner.⁂ Brückner was famously the first to publish Johann Sebastian Bach's sonata Gott ist mein König, BWV 71, which the latter wrote in Mülhausen at the age of 22 while working as an organist there. Led by Bach on the organ, the cantata was first performed on 4th February 1708 at the town's main church, the Marienkirche. The cantata was the first of Bach's works to be printed, and the only cantata extant in print that was printed in Bach's lifetime. key words:
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Non-Fiction Subject: Religion, Spirituality & Bibles
Year Printed: 1724
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
Binding: Leather
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Europe
Author: Johann Spangenberg
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: German
Publisher: Tobias David Bruchner
Place of Publication: Mühlhausen
Special Attributes: Illustrated