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120 Early German ancl Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
Colours: yellow, green, carmine, grey. The paper, which has no watermark, is-
much worm-eaten.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872. Another impression, not coloured, is in the
Basle Museum, printed on a Kalendar of 1488. Weigel states that he had seen in a
shop at Erlangen a Kalendar of 1485 with an impression of the same cut at the end.
The text of the present Kalendar (see Proctor, op. cit. ii, 731, App. no. 7788 B) is
printed in the same type as a broadside in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Auct. M.
iii, 16(2)), with title, “Narrat beatus Hieronymus vitam quam tenuit inheremo.” The
broadside contains a poem in Sapphic stanzas and a woodcut of St. Jerome in penitence,
Proctor 7789, Schr. 1556 (see p. 99). Weigel in a note (W. u. Z. i, p. 341) explains the-
symbolism of the design as follows:—The year beginning witlr Christmas Day, St. John
Baptist’s Day, June 24th, represents the commencement of the second half of the year.
Accordingly the bird with open wings near Christ is symbolical of the lengthening
days, while the bird witli closed wings near St. Jolrn is an emblem of the year’s decline.
The text “ He must increase, but I must decrease,” (Joh. iii, 30) was applied to the
position of these two festivals in the Kalendar. A-reproduction of this woodcut (not
quite accurate, for it omits the hatching in several places) is published in P. Heitz,.
“ Neujahrswiinsche des xv. Jalirhunderts,” Strassburg, 1899, no. 31. No. 29 in the same
book, a woodcut from the same design, with very slight variations, is from a Latin
Kalendar published (at Ulm?) in 1484, in tlre Hohenzollern Museum, at Sigmaringen.
TWO PHYSICIANS EXAMINING A PATIENT.
Schr. 1933. See D 2 (1).
A MONSTRANCE.
Schr. 1941. See A 3 (8).
A 128.
TJIE RELICS AT ANDECHS, BAYARIA, 1496.
A “ Bilderbogen,” or large sheet of pictures with xylographic text,,
intended to be fastened on a wall, containing cuts of the relics at the
pilgrixnage church on the Heiliger Berg at Andechs (see w'oodcuts by
M. A. Hannas for a view of the church), a hill rising above the east shore
of the Ammersee, about 20 miles south of Munich, still a popular shrine.
The cuts ancl texts are on four blocks, each measuring 265 x 375-80 mm.,
joinecl together in paii’S longitudinally. They ai’e now folded in the
miclclle, guarcled ancl bound as an oblong folio volume. Each pair of
blocks, xxpper aixcl lower, foi’ms a unit, the cixts ancl text being continxxed
withoxxt interruption from the 1. to the r. block. The principal portion of
the text on the second or lower sheet is impex-fect, owing to an irregular
tear which extends from the lower corner half-wray xxp the 1. side. The
whole is otherwise in goocl condition, except that the 1. half of the first
sheet has been torn, ancl small portions have been lost. The text on the
l. side reads thus . . . du tbis umTftg ijcitltljuttib to Qo rastd
attff tfrrn IjatltcjTtttt ?c 3UtlJrdjs Itt obcrtt papcrtt ....
Htttitttdjcit Slttff tfcitt ^ttttttcvscc tiw ^ttgstJttrgcr ijtsdjtijttmh, etc.
(16 lines). After a reference to the recent foundation of a Benedictine
monastei-y at Andechs by Duke Albert and his wdfe Anna,1 it enumerates
1 Albert II, Duke of Bavaria (Municb), 1401-1460, wlio married Aniia of
Brunswick-Grubenhagen, obtained a Bull for tlie foundation of tlie abbey from
Nicholas Y in 1453, and finislied tlie buildings in 1455, when tliey were occupied by
seven monks from Tegernsee. Tlie first abbot, Eberhard iStocklin, was consecrated in
1458.
Hain describes (nos. 968-972) five editions of the “ Andechs Ckronicle,” some with
woodcuts, published in book form before 1500. The two earliest were folio editions,
printed by J. Bamler at Augsburg, in 1473, and about 1476. Numerous editions
followed in the xvx and xvii centuries. Slieets like this, representing collections of
relics at other shrines, are described by Schreiber, nos. 1936-38. Many collections of
Colours: yellow, green, carmine, grey. The paper, which has no watermark, is-
much worm-eaten.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872. Another impression, not coloured, is in the
Basle Museum, printed on a Kalendar of 1488. Weigel states that he had seen in a
shop at Erlangen a Kalendar of 1485 with an impression of the same cut at the end.
The text of the present Kalendar (see Proctor, op. cit. ii, 731, App. no. 7788 B) is
printed in the same type as a broadside in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Auct. M.
iii, 16(2)), with title, “Narrat beatus Hieronymus vitam quam tenuit inheremo.” The
broadside contains a poem in Sapphic stanzas and a woodcut of St. Jerome in penitence,
Proctor 7789, Schr. 1556 (see p. 99). Weigel in a note (W. u. Z. i, p. 341) explains the-
symbolism of the design as follows:—The year beginning witlr Christmas Day, St. John
Baptist’s Day, June 24th, represents the commencement of the second half of the year.
Accordingly the bird with open wings near Christ is symbolical of the lengthening
days, while the bird witli closed wings near St. Jolrn is an emblem of the year’s decline.
The text “ He must increase, but I must decrease,” (Joh. iii, 30) was applied to the
position of these two festivals in the Kalendar. A-reproduction of this woodcut (not
quite accurate, for it omits the hatching in several places) is published in P. Heitz,.
“ Neujahrswiinsche des xv. Jalirhunderts,” Strassburg, 1899, no. 31. No. 29 in the same
book, a woodcut from the same design, with very slight variations, is from a Latin
Kalendar published (at Ulm?) in 1484, in tlre Hohenzollern Museum, at Sigmaringen.
TWO PHYSICIANS EXAMINING A PATIENT.
Schr. 1933. See D 2 (1).
A MONSTRANCE.
Schr. 1941. See A 3 (8).
A 128.
TJIE RELICS AT ANDECHS, BAYARIA, 1496.
A “ Bilderbogen,” or large sheet of pictures with xylographic text,,
intended to be fastened on a wall, containing cuts of the relics at the
pilgrixnage church on the Heiliger Berg at Andechs (see w'oodcuts by
M. A. Hannas for a view of the church), a hill rising above the east shore
of the Ammersee, about 20 miles south of Munich, still a popular shrine.
The cuts ancl texts are on four blocks, each measuring 265 x 375-80 mm.,
joinecl together in paii’S longitudinally. They ai’e now folded in the
miclclle, guarcled ancl bound as an oblong folio volume. Each pair of
blocks, xxpper aixcl lower, foi’ms a unit, the cixts ancl text being continxxed
withoxxt interruption from the 1. to the r. block. The principal portion of
the text on the second or lower sheet is impex-fect, owing to an irregular
tear which extends from the lower corner half-wray xxp the 1. side. The
whole is otherwise in goocl condition, except that the 1. half of the first
sheet has been torn, ancl small portions have been lost. The text on the
l. side reads thus . . . du tbis umTftg ijcitltljuttib to Qo rastd
attff tfrrn IjatltcjTtttt ?c 3UtlJrdjs Itt obcrtt papcrtt ....
Htttitttdjcit Slttff tfcitt ^ttttttcvscc tiw ^ttgstJttrgcr ijtsdjtijttmh, etc.
(16 lines). After a reference to the recent foundation of a Benedictine
monastei-y at Andechs by Duke Albert and his wdfe Anna,1 it enumerates
1 Albert II, Duke of Bavaria (Municb), 1401-1460, wlio married Aniia of
Brunswick-Grubenhagen, obtained a Bull for tlie foundation of tlie abbey from
Nicholas Y in 1453, and finislied tlie buildings in 1455, when tliey were occupied by
seven monks from Tegernsee. Tlie first abbot, Eberhard iStocklin, was consecrated in
1458.
Hain describes (nos. 968-972) five editions of the “ Andechs Ckronicle,” some with
woodcuts, published in book form before 1500. The two earliest were folio editions,
printed by J. Bamler at Augsburg, in 1473, and about 1476. Numerous editions
followed in the xvx and xvii centuries. Slieets like this, representing collections of
relics at other shrines, are described by Schreiber, nos. 1936-38. Many collections of