1581 FAMED Life of Christ 1ed 100s Renaissance Bible Woodcuts Ludolph of Saxony

1581 FAMED Life of Christ 1^ed 100s Renaissance Bible Woodcuts Ludolph of Saxony

‘Vita Christi’, more commonly called the ‘Mirror of the Life of Christ’, is a rare 14^th-century work by Ludolph of Saxony. This book, while seemingly just a biographical sketch of Jesus contains numerous liturgical texts, prayers, devotions, and historical commentaries. This book was known to have heavily influenced Saint Ignatius of Loyola and his ‘Spiritual Exercises’ along with numerous other Jesuit and Catholic writers.

This 1581 edition was the first Zilettum edition, published in Venice in an enormous, vellum-bound folio. The engraved title page is a stunning view which the OCLC calls an “exuberant architectural woodcut…featuring figures of women, cherubs, and grotesque heads, the rocks-in-a storm-at-sea device of Domenico and Giovanni Battista”. In addition to the title page, this edition features nearly 200 woodcut scenes depicting the life of Jesus each with Renaissance-style borders.

Item number: #27048

Price: $1500

SAXONY, Ludolph of

Vita Christi, Domini Saluatoris Nostri

Venetiis: Apud Guerraeos Fratres & Franciscum Zilettum, 1581. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [20], 767, [79]
  • Signatures: a⁴ b⁶ A-Z⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ Aaa-Ggg⁸
  • Engraved title page plus 181 woodcuts
• References: USTC 838821
• Provenance: Bookplate – Hans und Gertrude Aurenhammer
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
• Size: ~14in X 9.5in (35.5cm x 24.5cm)
• Very rare and desirable

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