Der Zehen Gebot ein nützliche Erklärung
Decem praecepta Wittenbergensi praedicata populo
This is a 1523 printing of Martin Luther's popular sermon on the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins, first printed in 1520 and reprinted numerous times. The work was originally composed in Latin and was translated into German by the cartographer and Christian Hebraist Sebastian Münster.
Signatures: pi⁶ a-f⁴ g⁶ h-z⁴ A-D⁴.
Printer from VD 16, place of publication from colophon.
Translated from Latin into German by Sebastian Münster. Cf. Benzing.
Title within ornamental woodcut border by Hans Holbein depicting the story of Pelops at the banquet of Tantalus. Each commandment is illustrated by a woodcut image attributed to Urs Graf. There are also 15 large historiated woodcut initials.
Pitts Theology Library copy is lacking leaves xxvii and xxviii (g3 and g4).
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Curio, Valentinus, -1532
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
German
Reformation
Sources
Deadly sins
Sermons
Early works to 1800
Sermons, German
Ten commandments
Sixteenth century
Text
books
This work is part of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e. not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library.
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