Annotationes Hieronimi Emsers, vber Luthers Newe Testame[n]t : ytzt tzum vierden mal vbersehen, welche auch mit dem Newen Testament, so Emser seliger verdeutschet, vnd am Jüngsten gedruckt, aussgangen sind, ym 1529 yhar.

Emser, Hieronymus, 1478-1527

Summary: In this volume, Hieronymous Emser, who had himself translated the New Testament from Greek into German, provides a chapter by chapter commentary and critique on Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament.
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-Y⁸ (Y8 blank).
Illustrative and Decorative Content: Title within woodcut border; woodcut title vignette, illustrations, initials and tail-pieces. Printed marginalia.
Imprint: from colophon on leaf [superscript pi]A4r.
Additional Details: Inscription on title page (18th century): Conventus S. Wenceslai Egrensis Sacri O:[rdinis] Praedicatorum (Dominican Convent St. Wenceslas in Eger, modern day Cheb, Czech Republic). Inscription in a 16th century hand on upper flyleaf, recording flooding in the city of Chemnitz, 1563 (1563 dinstack in der pfingstwoch [1. Juni 1563] ist das grose waser gebest [= gewest] zu kempnitz das hatt grosen schaden gethann). The same hand records the death of a Caspar Schreiber. A probable later relative by the same name was on the city council in Chemnitz and in 1632 prevented the city from being plundered during the 30 Years' War.

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