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132 Earhj German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
The whole is surroundecl by a double border, the inner line of which is
interrupted by the highest part of the cap.
[263 x 185.] A good impression, and on the whole well preserved, but damaged and
repaired in a few places. Margin [5-12], Watermark, Augsburg arms. Colours:
crimson lake, pale brown, pale yellow, grey, green; border, crimson lake. Traces of red,
turned brown, on the face and neck. The colouring and watermark suggest Augsburg
as the place of origin. Eepr. (much reduced) in A. Lehmann, “Das Bildnis bei den
Altdeutschen Meistern bis auf Diirer,” Leipzig, 1900, p, 46.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
A 134.
THE BISHOP OF SPIBES ADOBING THE YIBGIN AND CHILD. 1483.
Schr. 2021. W.—D 108.
The Yirgin, who has a crown and a single nimbus, is seated on a
cushion, and holds the Child on her knee with her r. hand, while she
extends her 1. hand towards the bishop, who kneels before her with joined
hands, vested in cope and mitre, and holding his pastoral staff under his 1.
arm. Between the two is a shield, with the arms of the diocese of Spires,
bearing a shield of pretence, with the arms of Ludwig von Helmstatt,
Bishop of Spires 1478-1504. Behind the bisliop is a long empty scroll.
The ground is marked, but the cut is bounded only on the lower side by a
straight border line. Very little hatching is used. The folds of the
drapery are very angular.
[48 X 129.] A good impression, uot coloured. Tke lower part of tbe sheet, containiug
tlie text, is badly worm-eaten.
Purchased frorn Messrs. Colnaghi, 1852.
The cut stands at the liead of an episcopal proclamation regulating the “ordo
divinus ” for Advent, 1483, and the remainder of the “tempus hyemale” of 1483-4.
The first paragraph of 36 lines relates to Adyent Sunday, 30tli Nov., 14S3, and the
remainder of the Advent season, regulating the order to be observed when Sundays and
Saints’ days coincide, the obscrvance of octaves and the like. The second paragraph of
19 lines announces the dominical letters (D and C) for the following (leap-) year, 1484,
aud continrres to regulate the services as far as Wednesday after Jubilate (12th May),
when the nest synod is to be lield. The people are to be instructed not to marryor take
oaths from Advent to the octave of tlie Epiphany (30th Nov.-13th Jan.), and from
Septuagesima to the octave of Pentecost (14th Feb.-13th June).
The proclamation is printed in an early type of Peter Drach, at Spires (see Proctor,
op. cit., ii, 731, App. no. 2352a). A fragmen't of the “ordo hyemalis” of Spires for the
succeeding year, 1484, printed in Drach’s later type, but with the same iuitial I, is in the
library (C’. 18. e. 1 (14), Proctor 2355). It has the same wToodcut at its head, and in
addition, a fine ornamental border on the 1. side, contaiDing foliage with an owl, a
peacock and other birds, and a half-length figure of a prophet with a. scroll. In the same
volume of fragment (C. 18. e. 1 (13) ) is another “ordo hyemalis” for Spires, of the year
1498, printed by C'onrad Hist (Proctor 2437a), headed by a copy of this cut, very
roughly executed, in which the Virgin does not extend her liand, while the scroll is
shorter, and is placed between the Virgin and the Bishop. The space to r. of the design
is filled by an omamental pattern of foliage, printed from anotlier block.
Schr., misled by the similarity of the arms of the two dioceses, Spires and C'onstance,
supposed the cut to have been produced at the latter place, where there was no printing-
press at this date. Tlie Bishop of Constance at tlie time was not, as lie states, Ludwig
von Freiberg, but Otto von Sonncnberg (1475-1491), for wliom Drach printed a
Constance breviarv at Spires in 1482.
THE VIIIGIN AND THE PATBON SAINTS OF CONSTANCE.
Schr. 2022.
See after D 8.
The whole is surroundecl by a double border, the inner line of which is
interrupted by the highest part of the cap.
[263 x 185.] A good impression, and on the whole well preserved, but damaged and
repaired in a few places. Margin [5-12], Watermark, Augsburg arms. Colours:
crimson lake, pale brown, pale yellow, grey, green; border, crimson lake. Traces of red,
turned brown, on the face and neck. The colouring and watermark suggest Augsburg
as the place of origin. Eepr. (much reduced) in A. Lehmann, “Das Bildnis bei den
Altdeutschen Meistern bis auf Diirer,” Leipzig, 1900, p, 46.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
A 134.
THE BISHOP OF SPIBES ADOBING THE YIBGIN AND CHILD. 1483.
Schr. 2021. W.—D 108.
The Yirgin, who has a crown and a single nimbus, is seated on a
cushion, and holds the Child on her knee with her r. hand, while she
extends her 1. hand towards the bishop, who kneels before her with joined
hands, vested in cope and mitre, and holding his pastoral staff under his 1.
arm. Between the two is a shield, with the arms of the diocese of Spires,
bearing a shield of pretence, with the arms of Ludwig von Helmstatt,
Bishop of Spires 1478-1504. Behind the bisliop is a long empty scroll.
The ground is marked, but the cut is bounded only on the lower side by a
straight border line. Very little hatching is used. The folds of the
drapery are very angular.
[48 X 129.] A good impression, uot coloured. Tke lower part of tbe sheet, containiug
tlie text, is badly worm-eaten.
Purchased frorn Messrs. Colnaghi, 1852.
The cut stands at the liead of an episcopal proclamation regulating the “ordo
divinus ” for Advent, 1483, and the remainder of the “tempus hyemale” of 1483-4.
The first paragraph of 36 lines relates to Adyent Sunday, 30tli Nov., 14S3, and the
remainder of the Advent season, regulating the order to be observed when Sundays and
Saints’ days coincide, the obscrvance of octaves and the like. The second paragraph of
19 lines announces the dominical letters (D and C) for the following (leap-) year, 1484,
aud continrres to regulate the services as far as Wednesday after Jubilate (12th May),
when the nest synod is to be lield. The people are to be instructed not to marryor take
oaths from Advent to the octave of tlie Epiphany (30th Nov.-13th Jan.), and from
Septuagesima to the octave of Pentecost (14th Feb.-13th June).
The proclamation is printed in an early type of Peter Drach, at Spires (see Proctor,
op. cit., ii, 731, App. no. 2352a). A fragmen't of the “ordo hyemalis” of Spires for the
succeeding year, 1484, printed in Drach’s later type, but with the same iuitial I, is in the
library (C’. 18. e. 1 (14), Proctor 2355). It has the same wToodcut at its head, and in
addition, a fine ornamental border on the 1. side, contaiDing foliage with an owl, a
peacock and other birds, and a half-length figure of a prophet with a. scroll. In the same
volume of fragment (C. 18. e. 1 (13) ) is another “ordo hyemalis” for Spires, of the year
1498, printed by C'onrad Hist (Proctor 2437a), headed by a copy of this cut, very
roughly executed, in which the Virgin does not extend her liand, while the scroll is
shorter, and is placed between the Virgin and the Bishop. The space to r. of the design
is filled by an omamental pattern of foliage, printed from anotlier block.
Schr., misled by the similarity of the arms of the two dioceses, Spires and C'onstance,
supposed the cut to have been produced at the latter place, where there was no printing-
press at this date. Tlie Bishop of Constance at tlie time was not, as lie states, Ludwig
von Freiberg, but Otto von Sonncnberg (1475-1491), for wliom Drach printed a
Constance breviarv at Spires in 1482.
THE VIIIGIN AND THE PATBON SAINTS OF CONSTANCE.
Schr. 2022.
See after D 8.