BIBLE IN A BOOK-BOX
[BIBLE.]
Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung Herrn D. Martin Luthers … als eine bequeme Hand- Schul- und Canzel-Bibel zum nuzlichen Gebrauch also ausgefertiget, nebst einer Vorrede der Hochlöbl. Theologischen Facultät zu Altdorf [– Die Heilige Schrift Neuen Testaments unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi … ; – Sehr nützlicher und erbaulicher fünffacher Anhang …].
Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich Zobel, 1751.
Three vols bound in five; bound in contemporary (Swiss?) sheep, spines gilt in compartments with gilt red paper lettering-pieces, blue paste-patterned edges, marbled pastedowns, preserved together in a pull-off case of sheep over board, ruled in blind, spine gilt-ruled in compartments between false raised bands, one compartment stained black and lettered directly in gilt (‘BIBLIA SACRA IN IV BAND SAMT ANHANG’), lined with marbled paper; bindings and box somewhat rubbed, a few chips to endcaps, otherwise very well-preserved; ink inscription to front free endpaper of the New Testament ‘Bibel Buch. / vor mich. / Andreas Sprecher.. / Ao 1784.
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Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung Herrn D. Martin Luthers … als eine bequeme Hand- Schul- und Canzel-Bibel zum nuzlichen Gebrauch also ausgefertiget, nebst einer Vorrede der Hochlöbl. Theologischen Facultät zu Altdorf [– Die Heilige Schrift Neuen Testaments unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi … ; – Sehr nützlicher und erbaulicher fünffacher Anhang …].
A German Bible with extensive apparatus, divided into five volumes and strikingly bound in a book-shaped pull-off case.
While many boxes and cases of the period served to protect books in transit, the large case here makes the volumes inside it considerably less mobile, and was likely intended to make the book inside – and the process of reading it – more impressive. The Zobel Bible is a not-overly-imposing octavo edition most often found bound in one volume, but here divided not only into its three constituent parts but into five separate volumes, substantially increasing both the cost and the size of the binding.
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