Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch (1534)
Translated by Martin Luther and his colleagues at WittenbergPrinted at Wittenberg, 1534
The first complete Bible in Luther’s German translation, printed in six parts by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg in 1534. The copy cited is in the Lutherhaus at Wittenberg.
Read the text at st.museum-digital.de ↗Title page, with a description (German History in Documents and Images) ↗
The title page reads, in translation, “Bible, that is, the whole Holy Scripture in German. Mart. Luth. Wittenberg”, and names the printer Hans Lufft and the year 1534. The museum’s record describes a folio in six parts and dates the work of translation from 1522 to 1534.
The record is cited for the object and its date. It is the description of one surviving copy by the museum that keeps it, in the house at Wittenberg where Martin Luther lived.
Cited in
- 1522 to 1534, firm date