HAYMO, Bishop of Halberstadt

Commentariorum in Apocalypsim Beati Iohan. libri VII iam primum in lucem editi, & ad multo[rum] scripto[rum] codicum fidem castigati

      Ex officina Eucharij (Eucharius Cervicornus: procurante M. Gottfrido Hittorpio), Cologne 1531 - Contemporary blindstamped pigsin with portrait panel (85 x 50 mm) dated "1534" and initials "V.D.M.I.E." with 2 brass clasps. Spine painted over at an early time. 8vo . Second edition (1st: 1529) of this biblical commentary by Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt (d. 853), which includes the Latin text of the Revelation of St. John, with commentary interspersed. Bound in a beautiful contemporary blindstamped decorated pigskin binding with its original two brass clasps intact. The central portrait panel depicts a standing figure behind a shield with a coat of arms with portrait rolls on both sides and the initials "V.D.M.I.E." at the top. There are decorative floral rolls on the back. The spine has been painted gray with black letters at an early period. The impressions are a little faint but an attractive copy with the brass clasps intact. Illustrated with the superb woodcut title-border depicting the suicide of Cleopatra in a reduced copy of a border originally done by Hans Holbein (cf. Hollstein XIVA, Hans Holbein the Younger, 50) [440] p. Woodcut border after Hans Holbein (Merlo 1053, 405; see below). Large woodcut, white on black, initials. § Adams H-119; Panzer VI, 406; not in BM/STC German.