Polanco,J.(A.De).
Underricht, To comfort the dying ... by Ioannem Raffer.... Germanized. Dillingen, Johann Mayer 1584. with small printer's mark on the back and wood engraving on the verso. 8 fol., 354 (recte: 362) pp., 3 (le. w.) fol. - ╔Bound: Rabus,J.╗ Kurtzer, warhaffter und gründtlicher Bericht, von dem hoch und weitberhümbten wundersamen H. Sacrament, zu Deckendorff und Passaw, in dem hochlöblichen Fürstenthumb Nidern Bayern.... Mchn., (Adam Berg) 1584. with 12 wood engravings 86 (of 87) pp. new edition. I. VD 16, P 3919. De Backer/S. VI, 944. booker 541. palau 230223. not in Adams u. in STC (+ Suppl.). - Only German edition of the widely used death book. Polanco (1517-1576) was secretary of Ignatius of Loyola. The beautiful woodcut on the back of the title page shows the memento mori, which the Austrian chancellor Justinian Moser liked to distribute to his friends. - II VD 16, R 17. not in Adams, Lentner u. Pfister, not in STC (+ Suppl.). - From leaf G2r an account of the Passau host outrage of 1477: "Warhaffte Geschicht der grewlichen That, so die Juden an H. Hochwürdigen Sacrament zu Passaw begangen", with 12 woodcuts (not in Hayn, Ritualmorde u. Hostienfrevel). - Title of I soiled, with partly erased ownership notes a. small bow repair. II with water damage at the lower margin. (:)2 minor loss of text due to a cut corner, p. E8 replaced by a photocopy, the western final p. K8 missing. Final leaf K8 missing. Without front endpaper.
