Citation of texts from the sacred scripture in Germany in the 16th century using the example of autographs of the great reformers and inscriptions on bindings (from the collections of the RSL)
The article continues the author's series of publications on the topic of “displaced cultural values” stored in the Russian State Library. Among foreign old printed books from the RSL, it is especially necessary to highlight the books with autographs. These can be dedicatory inscriptions of the author of an essay or signatures of the collection owner or collector. The materials presented below are the autographs identified by the author and studied, including a number of newly discovered ones. In this case, only those autographs are presented where there is evidence of free handling of the texts of the Holy Scriptures when they are quoted. The article focuses on the inscriptions with quotations from the Bible on German book bindings of the 16th century, which also testify to the free handling of biblical texts.