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Witzel, Georg. Summer part of the Homiliarum Orthodoxarum. Postils, interpretation and explanation of the holy epistles and gospels of all sundays and high feast days (sic). With woodcut printer's mark. Cologne, J. Quentel Erben, 1556. 1 leaf, pp. 407-902, 1 white leaf - Bound: The same. Summer part Ecclesiasticae Demegoriae. Postill oder gemeyne predig rechter Catholischer lere, uber alle Episteln und Evangelien von den Heiligen Gottes. With woodcut printer's mark. Ibid. 1556. 1 leaf, pp. 201-552, 1 white leaf - And: Michael Helding. Ionas Propheta. Etliche Christliche und nütze Predige auß dem Propheten Jona ... durch Herrn Michael Bischoff zu Merßburg (preface by Ph. Agricola). With large woodcut title. Mainz, F. Behem, 1558. 2 nn. pp., 94 num. Leaves 33.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary pigskin binding over wooden boards with scroll and plate blind embossing, 2 brass clasps and a forged chain 67 cm long attached to the head of the back cover (rubbed, dusty and with traces of scratching, one clasp anchor somewhat frayed, chain rusty, small break in the wood glued along the fastening loop). Completely preserved chain binding, the chain with a large double cheek and no less than 16 links (5 round, 11 oval) of very unusual length. - The provenance is not clear from the rubbed embossing, especially in the inscriptions: portrait plate at the front, very similar to the binding bust of Elector Augustus of Saxony with sword, which can be traced in several variants, Lucretia with the dagger in half figure at the back (signature "Casta tulit magnae formae ..."). The figurative scroll embossing on the front and back is the same with Christus Salvator, David and round portraits of Luther and Melanchthon. - The content corresponds to this pictorial mixture of old and new faith: Witzel (1501-73) initially adhered to the Reformation, converted back to Catholicism in 1532 and wrote the conciliatory treatise "Via regia" in 1564 at the suggestion of Emperor Maximilian II. The humanist Helding (1506-61) became the last bishop of Merseburg in 1550 and advocated a pronounced reformist Catholicism. - Witzel: The summer part of both postilles in second editions, first published in 1542/43 and 1546 respectively. - VD16 W 3948 and ZV 21875 respectively - Helding: First edition. - VD 16 H 1592 - The title woodcut is a splendid harbor scene with Jonah being swallowed by the whale and spit out again, above it a separately printed putti border with coat of arms. - The entire volume with surrounding brown margins in the bars, type area mostly only moderately browned, first and last leaves slightly frayed. VAT: *
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Witzel, Georg. Summer part of the Homiliarum Orthodoxarum. Postils, interpretation and explanation of the holy epistles and gospels of all sundays and high feast days (sic). With woodcut printer's mark. Cologne, J. Quentel Erben, 1556. 1 leaf, pp. 407-902, 1 white leaf - Bound: The same. Summer part Ecclesiasticae Demegoriae. Postill oder gemeyne predig rechter Catholischer lere, uber alle Episteln und Evangelien von den Heiligen Gottes. With woodcut printer's mark. Ibid. 1556. 1 leaf, pp. 201-552, 1 white leaf - And: Michael Helding. Ionas Propheta. Etliche Christliche und nütze Predige auß dem Propheten Jona ... durch Herrn Michael Bischoff zu Merßburg (preface by Ph. Agricola). With large woodcut title. Mainz, F. Behem, 1558. 2 nn. pp., 94 num. Leaves 33.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary pigskin binding over wooden boards with scroll and plate blind embossing, 2 brass clasps and a forged chain 67 cm long attached to the head of the back cover (rubbed, dusty and with traces of scratching, one clasp anchor somewhat frayed, chain rusty, small break in the wood glued along the fastening loop). Completely preserved chain binding, the chain with a large double cheek and no less than 16 links (5 round, 11 oval) of very unusual length. - The provenance is not clear from the rubbed embossing, especially in the inscriptions: portrait plate at the front, very similar to the binding bust of Elector Augustus of Saxony with sword, which can be traced in several variants, Lucretia with the dagger in half figure at the back (signature "Casta tulit magnae formae ..."). The figurative scroll embossing on the front and back is the same with Christus Salvator, David and round portraits of Luther and Melanchthon. - The content corresponds to this pictorial mixture of old and new faith: Witzel (1501-73) initially adhered to the Reformation, converted back to Catholicism in 1532 and wrote the conciliatory treatise "Via regia" in 1564 at the suggestion of Emperor Maximilian II. The humanist Helding (1506-61) became the last bishop of Merseburg in 1550 and advocated a pronounced reformist Catholicism. - Witzel: The summer part of both postilles in second editions, first published in 1542/43 and 1546 respectively. - VD16 W 3948 and ZV 21875 respectively - Helding: First edition. - VD 16 H 1592 - The title woodcut is a splendid harbor scene with Jonah being swallowed by the whale and spit out again, above it a separately printed putti border with coat of arms. - The entire volume with surrounding brown margins in the bars, type area mostly only moderately browned, first and last leaves slightly frayed. VAT: *
