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Little Book on Marriage Facsimile Edition

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The Little Book on Marriage is an early humanist text by Albrecht von Eyb printed in Nürnberg in 1472. The text deals with the moral and practical questions of Christian marriage, debating the value of the institution, and ultimately arguing in favor of it. Although not the first treatise on marriage, von Eyb's text is valuable for its locus at the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the modern period. The copy in the Gutenberg-Museum contains at least one painted initial with vegetal flourishes executed in colors and gold and many smaller initials in two colors.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Little Book on Marriage": Anton von Eyb Ehebüchlein facsimile edition, published by Guido Pressler, 1966

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Anton von Eyb Ehebüchlein

Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler, 1966

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