Six hermits
Folio; fols. 1v-370v. With 276 contemporary woodcuts. The rare first German edition of these Lives of the Saints once attributed to Saint Jerome, the most profusely illustrated book to emanate from Sorg's press.
fol. 1v
Vitas Sanctorum patrum, sive vitas patrum [Das Buch der heiligen Altväter ]
Goff H217 ; H 8605* ; Schr 4217 ; Schramm IV p.26 & 51 ; Voull(B) 129 ; Deckert 364 ; Hubay(Augsburg) 1049 ; Pr 1686 ; BMC II 350 ; BSB-Ink V-259
Augsburg SStB (2, imperfect) ; Augsburg UB (imperfect, Inc.54) ; Bamberg PriesterSem ; Berlin KunstB (imperfect) ; Berlin SB ; Dresden SLUB (1 leaf only) ; Halle ULB ; Karlsruhe BLB ; Magdeburg KlosterB ; München BSB (imperfect) ; München UB (imperfect) ; Stuttgart WLB ; Tübingen UB ; Ulm StB (imperfect) ; Würzburg UB (imperfect); Innsbruck UB (imperfect, wanting ff.1-6); Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Washington DC ; Library of Congress, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Washington DC ; The Newberry Library, Chicago IL ; Yale Univ., Beinecke Library, New Haven CT (proofsheet)
Le peintre gravure, vol. 83: 1482/993; Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke vol. 4, 882.
