Items

• Printer's mark
• Title page
• Marginalia
  Also, the original purchaser of this NT wrote a good number of marginal notes before the book was bound (or at least before the current binding), since one can find marginal notes cut off around the edges when the pages were trimmed for binding (for example, in Romans, Ephesians, Corinthians).
• Inside front cover
  There is a signature inside the front cover “O. Kramer,” but we have not been able to identify who that was.
• Front cover
  This vellum binding would have been a middle of the road choice, not the cheapest but also not especially fancy. The owner may have chosen this type of binding so they could write titles and other notes on the spine, which this copy does have.
• First page
  This 1522 edition of the New Testament in Greek and Latin, edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) is the oldest item in the Mennonite Library and Archives at Bethel.
• Spine
  Paper label on spine: “Froben Adagio”
• Spider
  Spider squashed between pages 786 and 787
• Publisher's Announcement
  Publisher's announcement dated Basilea, 1520, on 1st leaf, within border of vignette portraits representing Greek and Roman authors
• Notes
  Handwritten notes in page margins
• Notes and fly
  Pages from Adagiorum chiliades quatuor showing handwritten notes in the margins and a insect squashed between the pages.
• Index
• Front cover
• Title page
• Title page
  The text has underlining and faint marginal notes, indicating that it was well-used by a prior owner. Unfortunately, it also attained library markings when it was acquired by the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries Elkhart Library in 1962 for the princely sum of $15.25. It was printed in Cologne by classical and humanistic printer Johannes Soter (ps. of Johannes Heyl), with evidence such as the use of the five-pointed star in title page decoration. These two paraphrases have been bound together, indicating perhaps that the works were used together.
• Title page
  The title page for an early edition of Erasmus' paraphrases of the Book of Matthew, likely printed in Cologne by Johannes Soter. It has been bound together with a 1522 edition of Erasmus' paraphrases of the Book of John, also printed by Soter.
• Binding
  Stamped pigskin binding contemporary with printed work.
• Ausslegung des Evangelions des heiligen Matthei, durch den hochgelerten Erasmum von Roterodam beschriben
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• Vorred an die christenliche Läser Leonis Jude
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• Title page
  The title page of Paraphrasis oder Postilla Teütsch, displaying the book's full title and publisher's mark.