Icones catecheseos et virtvtvm ac uitiorum illustratae numeris Iohannis Hofferi cobergensis : item. Historia passionis domini nostri Iesu Christi effigiata
Icones catecheseos is a 1558 Lutheran catechism picture book printed at Wittenberg by Johann Hoffer and Jakob Lucius, with Latin and German verses for teaching the Christian faith. Its pictures are small woodcut scenes of the Passion, each framed above a block of text, showing crowded groups of soldiers, judges and angels in dense hatching that a designer could use for tight, high-contrast narrative panels.
