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... eyne schone Lybrye vth der gantzen Werldt vorsammelde / vele gudes den
Jogen [sic] dede / den Tempel vnnd Gades denst tho Jerusalem / herliken tzyrde.
Dat yck holde / he sy ock der hilligen Koninge ein.
Desulue gafT syne enige Dochter Bernice genomet / dem Antiocho Theo vp dat
de Frede deste vaster hélde / vnd starff darna. Se auerst de Bernice / alse eines
mechtigen Koninges Dochter vnn nu ock suluest eyne mechtige Koninginne vnd
Frouwe to haue / trachtede darna / dat er Sone scholde eruen dat Koninckrike
Syrie. Auerst jdt feilde er. Wente Laodicea..........................
ya ock mith erem Heren dem Koninge / van dem se so mechtich gheworden was /
auergeuen werden jn den dodt.
Solcke vndoget straffede vnd wrekede Bernice broder / Ptolomeus Euergetes /
krygede wedder de twe broders Seleucum vnd Antiochum / voryagede se ock /
vnd puchede er Koninckrike vth vnd toch wedder nha huss. Vnde thom lesten
balde darna / quemen desse twe Brodér (alse ydt syck Modermodern behort)
yammerliken vnnd elendichliken vmme. Dar van secht hyr Daniel / Dath de
Koninck jegent Siiden / mith Heerskrafft wedder den Koninck yegent Norden
theen / vnnd en auerwinnen werde.
Na Ptolomeus Euergetes dode / rusteden syck wedderumme des vorstoruen
Seleuci Galiinici Sons / nomliken Seleucus Keraunus vnd de.8.
This text is of course very close to that of Luther’s High German Bible
quoted above, since it was printed in the same place by the same printer,
but it differs from that text in a number of minor details that are
interesting to compare with the Icelandic texts:
LUTHER 1545 LOW GERMAN 1541
AM 696 XI 4to
GUDBRANDSBIBLIA
Librarey
das der Friede
trachtet
im Kiinigreich
Syria
es feilete
Lybrye
vp dat de Frede
trachtede darna
dat Koninckrike
Syrie
jdt feilde er
recto:
Librium
uppaa pat at
fridrinn
[s]tundade par epter
konungfdjominn
og Rikid j Syria
pat ... brast
henne
fiolda Boka
see above
stundade par epter
Rijkesins j Syria
pat brast
8 Biblia: dat ys: de gantze Hillige Schriffl / Diidesch / Vpt nye thogerichtet / vnde mit vlite corrigert. D.
Mart. Luth. Gedruckt dorch Hans Lufft tho Wittemberg. D.M.XL1. The passage occurs on fol. CIIIv of
“De Propheten alle dudesch.” There is a later version of this Bible, with the same type and pagination,
printed at Magdeborg in 1545 by Hans Walther. In the passage from the Daniel-preface there are no
significant ehanges in the 1545 version (although “Jogen" is correctly spelled “Joden”), and the
translator of AM 696 XI 4to could just as well have used the 1545 as the 1541 edition. The Copenhagen
University Library has copies of both these Bibles.