BIBLE,

Die Kölner Bibel 1478/1479. (De Keulse Bijbel 1478/1479). Facsimile edition of the Low German Cologne Bible of 1478/79.

      . Hamburg, Friedrich wittig Verlag, 1979; large fol.; 1088pp., with 123 illus. & borders, initials in blue & red; with vol. of commentary. * This important bible was the work of a consortium, incl. Nurnberg's Anton Koberger, who aimed to serve the needs of the whole low-German-speaking region from the Rhine to the Baltic. It uses two dialects - of the Lower Rhine and of Lower Saxony - while the illustrations, in large format, designed to complement the whole text, contribute to making Scripture even more accessible to people for whom it had hitherto been filtered through scholarly interpretation. The illustrations have been related to ink drawings for a manuscript bible of 1460. Volume I of this edition is a complete facsimile in original format; Volume II contains analyses of the work & its background, a ink drawings. Folio, Cloth Heavey set ask for postal quote