Printer's Device of Sigmund Feyerabend

Book Title: Summaria vber die gantze Biblia : das Alte vnd Newe Testament, darinn auffs kürtzte angezeygt wirdt, was am nötigsten vnd nützten ist dem jungen Volck, vnd gemeynem Mann, auss allen Capiteln zu wissen vnd zu lernen, darnach sie ihr Leben richten vnd solcher seiner Lehre, zu jrer Seelen Seligkeyt brauchen können / durch Vitum Dieterich. Mit Fleiss von newem vbersehen, vnd mit schönen Figuren gezieret. Vnterschied des Alten vnd Newen Testaments. Fürneme Vnterschied zwischen reyner christlicher Lehre des Euangelij, vnd der abgöttischen Papisten Lehre. Christlicher vnd kurtzer Vnterricht, von Vergebung der Sünde vnd Seligkeyt, durch Philippum Melanthonem. Kurtzer Begriff vnd Innhalt der gantzen heiligen Schrifft, vnd aller biblischen Bücher, des Alten vnd Newen Testaments, durch Iohannem Brentium

Author: Dietrich, Veit, 1506-1549

Image Title: Printer's Device of Sigmund Feyerabend

Description: On the title-page is the monogram of Virgil Solis (1514-1562), and below that the printer's device of Sigmund Feyerabend (1528-1590), one of the most accomplished printers at Frankfurt am Main, which features the Roman goddess Fama (Greek, Pheme), who represented rumor. Shown with trumpets and wings, she was renown for reporting abroad all that she heard and saw.

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