Der Gantz Jüdische Glaub

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 335
MARGARITHA, ANTON

Der Gantz Jüdische Glaub

FIRST EDITION. Woodcut vignette on title with five further woodcut illustrations. Title woodcut by Jan de Breu. Initial letters within historiated woodcut vignettes by Hans Holbein. Sporadic use of Hebrew ff.(90). Dampstained, gently damp-wrinkled, title rehinged, small neat marginal repairs to ff.4-5. Early vellum -remnents of a Latin manuscript. Sm.4to Freimann, p.148; Rosenberger Catalogue, Judaica (HUC, 1971) p.385 fig.107; not in Adams

Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner 1530

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,500
A RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK OF ANTI-SEMITICA. Two additional anti-Jewish woodcuts appear only in this rare first edition and were suppresed in later editions. An apostate and anti-Jewish writer (his name is a corruption of the Family surname Margoliouth), the author was born c.1490 and converted to Catholicism in 1522, later becaming a Protestant. This libellous tract had a great influence upon Martin Luther who quoted it often in his own writings. Margaritha ridicules Jewish religious faith and practice and argues against their Messianic beliefs, he accuses the Jews of lacking charity, piety, of sentiments hostile to Christians and finally, of treason.