Dodgson, Campbell: Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] (London, 1903)

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Earhj German and Flemish Wooclcuts.—Part I.

Dinckmut of Ulm in “ Sermones dominicales Joliannis de Franckfordia,” Ulm, n.d.
(1480 ?) ; Hain 7352; Proctor 2558, and in Sclirick, “ Yon den ausgebrannten Wassern,”
Ulm, 1482; Proctor 2560. A woodcut of the Grucifixion witli tlie two tkieves, in the
presence of the Yirgin and St. John, acquired for the Department of Printed Books at
tlie 'VVeigel sale (W. u. Z. 191; Proctor 2559), hastext printed in the same type, butthe
woodcuts themselves differ completely in style. (See Proctor, “ Index to Early Printed
Books in the British Museum,” 1898, ii, 731, App. no. 2559a.)

On the margin at the top is the inscription in a liand of the xvi century : isz
Buoch GeJiort in Die gemcdn Teutsch Liberey.1 This shows that the cut was formerly
pasted in a book. Lower down, in a much later hand, is ‘ No. 31.’

Presented by W. Mitckell, Esq., 1895.

Anotker impression, witli the same type, is in the Germ. Museum, Nuremberg
(Eepr. Ess. pl. 152), a third in the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek, Munich (Einbl. vii, 4).

A 27.

THE INFANT CHRIST ON A FLOWEE.

Sclir. 779; W. u. Z. 56. W.—C 2.

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The infant Christ, who has a cruciform nimbus and wears a loose
mantle, open in front, stands on a large flower, which has a bud and leaves
of conventional design. He raises his r. hand in blessing, and holds in
his 1. hand a long scroll, which passes behind his back and bears the
inscription, 3£tlt ♦ ♦ CjbOt * ♦ SftitJ ♦ * t<U*. Behind him is a veined
cross. Single border.

[179 X 116.] Poor imprcssion; the block shows sigus of wear. Papcr slightly
worm-eaten, otherwise well preserved, without margin. No watermark. Colours :
maddcr red, yellow ochre (both faded), green.

The woodcut was formerly in the Weigel collection. It was detached from the
cover of a Plenarium printed at Cologne by H. Quentel, 1502.

Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872. Formerly described as a metal-cut.

It is a close, but enlarged, copy, in the direction of the original, from au engraving
by tlie master E. S., P. ii. 57. 153, Weimar, Paris. Reproduction in British Museum.
See Lehrs. Repert. xi. 214, xv. 140, xvi. 29, on tlie original and other copies (Schr.
778, 780-1). An engraved copy in reverse by Israhel van Meckencm is in the British
Museum (W. II 38), and in the Albertina, Yienna. AIL these, with tlie exception of
Schr. 780 (a woodcut in the collection of Baron Edmond de Rotkschild, Paris) are repro-
duced in P. Ileitz, “ Neujahrswiinsche des xv. Jahrhunderts,” Strassburg, 1S99, pl. 1-6.

A 28.

TIIE INFANT CHRIST WITH A BIRD.

Schr. 786.

The nakecl child, witli curly hair ancl cruciform nimbus, sits on a
cushion with a large pattern, which is placed on a grassy field. He holds
a long-tailed parrakeet (?) with both hands against his breast. iNo
hatching. Double border.

1 For tlie samc inscription, see P. i, 31. 18. Tlie same words are written, clcarly by
thc liand of the same librarian, iu tlie British Museum copy of Amandus, Augsburg, II.
Othmar, 1512, with the following additional words, in a lower line, wkick kave been
crased from Sclir. 769: “ In das Gotzliausz iintzlcopfen.” Over tlie titlc is written by
a different hand, “Dcis bucli ist der Jrume lcinder gotes zu untzhopfen. Ihis is
pcrhaps the nuns’ convent of Inzigkofen, ucar Sigmaringen, mentioned by Essenwcin,
“Hzschn. im Germ. Mus.,” 1875, Verzeiclmiss, p. 2.