Martin Luther. Chronica des Ehrwürdigen herrn D. Mart. Luth. Deutsch

Mit einem Anhang der Folgenden jaren. Wittenberg, H. Lufft, 1559, (127) lvs., title printed in red and black and w. woodcut printer's mark, modern overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo.

Browned throughout, occas. waterst.; w. 2 ex libris on endpapers, incl. one of S.J.H. van Hengel. German translation by Johannes Aurifaber (1517-1568), of Luther's Supputatio Annorum Mundi (Reckoning of the Years of the World), which forms a chronological table from the creation of the world up to 1559. The chronology has 2 synchronous time-lines: starting at leaf C1 from the 10th year of the creation itself, which was 3950 years before the birth of Christ, and with the 10th year after the birth of Christ opposite the year 3950 after the creation of the world on leaf LIII. In this edition the timelines are continued in empty columns up to 5545/ 1585.