1597 – Enormous Catholic Postil by Jakob Feucht | German, Liturgical Prayer Calendar

Jakob Feucht was a 16th-century German Catholic bishop who wrote an enormous postil on the festivals and daily prayers of the Catholic liturgical calendar. Postilla Catholica Evangeliorum de Tempore totius Anni, written by Feucht, is an impressive 1597 vellum-bound Catholic postil. This folio contains hundreds of prayers and homilies for each week of the Catholic liturgical calendar aligning with major feast days, Sundays, and holy days. This impressive folio includes numerous in-text woodcut engravings throughout.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postilla Catholica Evangeliorum de Tempore totius Anni : Das ist: Catholische Außlegung aller Sontäglichen Euangelien durch das gantze Jar
• Author(s): Jakob Feucht
• Publisher: Köln, durch Arnoldum Quentelium
• Edition: First edition, 1597.
• Format: Folio, two parts in one volume
• Binding: binding
• Size: 13 in × 8.75 in (33 cm × 22.2 cm)
• Collation: Vol. 1: [24], 520 pp.; Vol. 2: 512, [8] pp.
• Illustrations: Dozens of in-text woodcuts
• Contents Include:
  • Advent through the first of May
  • Pentecost through the end of November
• Provenance: provenance
• Reference(s): USTC 685111

Condition:

Very Good. Binding secure and tight with moderate rubbing to boards. Vellum spine aged but intact. Text block shows scattered foxing, mostly mild. All leaves present and woodcuts clean.

Why Collect This?

• Rare two-part Catholic postil from late 16th-century Cologne
• Numerous original woodcut illustrations
• Beautiful vellum over marbled boards and marbled end papers

Item Number: #29554