Description

The so-called Stöger Passion is the first book to have been printed in Bavaria and probably the very first illustrated incunabulum, predating even Albrecht Pfister’s edition of Boner’s Edelstein dated February 14, 1461 as well as Pfister’s Biblia pauperum (Paupers’ Bible) of circa 1462‒63. The book is named after Franz Xaver Stöger the Younger, most likely the son of a Munich auctioneer, who since 1831 had good business contacts with the Munich library and first publicized the work in 1833. The book was printed with movable ...