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136 Early Gerrnan and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
Each of these bears an inscription in the same hand as that reproduced by Labouchere,
p. 207 (reduced)—the hand of the same librarian who entered the titles of the books
presented by ’Wilhelm yon Zell and Hilprand Brandenburg. These are both com-
mentaries by Cardinal Hugo, one on the four Gospels, the other on the prophets Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Baruch, inscribed Liber Carthusien In Buchshaim jpge Memingen . . .
. donatus a nobili dna Eadigunda Eggenbergerin de fiessen (i.e. Fiissen), Eelicta
Eomicelli Georgij Gossenbrot de Eochenfriberg. OreV' g ea et p quib’ desiderauit. This
is the earliest instance of a book-plate in connection with a lady. The first quartering
coniains presumably the arms of her husband, the Junker Georg Gossenbrot, while the
second and third will be those of the Eggenberger family.
A BLANK BOOK-PLATE.
Schr. 2041. See list of books containing woodcuts, at the end of Diyision D.
The cut was not produced “ at Augsburg about 1490-1500,” but at Nuremberg
in 1489, and forms an integral part of the book, “ Versehung leib sel er vnnd gutt,”
Hain 16019.
A 140.
THE ARMS OF JANUS TOLOPLIUS.
The shield bears a half-length figure of Janus, with a black eagle
standing on his shoulders. He holds in his sinister hand a key which
touches a cloud, and in the dexter hand an urn with three stars, from
which a sheet of water issues, bearing a ship. The shield is surrounded
by the collar of the Golden Fleece and surmounted by a helm and a crest
of peacocks’ feathers. At the top of the cut is the following xylographic
description in seven lines :
IANI T0LH0PHI GERMANI VATIS HEHCVLEI | Armorum
Insignia Clipeo Bicolori Coelesti Campo & Aureo Parnaso Iano |
Bicipite Mundi Renouatore Ventre Chaonio Pontificali Lituo Vrna
Stell’ | Celata Deucalionis Aquis Saturnia Rate Claue Coelica Nube
Candida Inachi | Senis & Ganimedis Iuuenis Faciebus Irrorantis
Aquarii Corona Regia & | Aquila desuper Casside Belligera Pauonis
Cauda Cum Argi Oculis J Induuiis Ventiuolis Societa (tis?) Iasonis
Adornata.
Inachus, Ganymede and Aquarius appear to have been omitted for want of space.
The words “ Induviis . . . Jasonis ” describe the Golden Eleece. The rare word
“ induviae ” is found in Plautus and Prudentius. Tolophus is known to have pro-
jected an edition of the latter author, from whom, no doubt, he took it. Since
Hercules = Maximilian (see A 141), Vates Herculeus presumably = Court-poet. The
whole design is enclosed by a single border-line.
[265 X 155.] Not coloured. On old white paper, witbout watermark. An early,
but not contemporary impression.
From the collection of “Ex libris,” etc., bequeathed by Sir A. Wollaston Franks,
K.C.B., in 1897. A former owner has written on the back, as his interpretation of
“ Societatis Jasonis,” “ de la Socie'te de Jesus.”
The inventor of this piece of fancy heraldry was Janus (Johannes) Tolophus, a
learned canon of Regensburg, who was Rector Magnificus of the University ot Ingol-
stadt in 1473, and died in 1503. Ple was a friend and correspondent of Conrad
Celtis, a mathematician and a student of classical literature. None of his works appear
to have been printed (Kobolt, “Baierisches Gelehrten-Lexicon,” 1795, p. 693 : Kliipfel,
“ De Vita et Scriptis C'onradi Celtis,” 1827, Pt. I. pp. 40, 105, 107, 108, 187; Pt. II.
pp. 147, 148, 156).
The Imperial Library at Vienna poseesses an impression of this woodcut on the back
of the same slieet of paper as the following cut, A 141. The two are undoubtedly of
Each of these bears an inscription in the same hand as that reproduced by Labouchere,
p. 207 (reduced)—the hand of the same librarian who entered the titles of the books
presented by ’Wilhelm yon Zell and Hilprand Brandenburg. These are both com-
mentaries by Cardinal Hugo, one on the four Gospels, the other on the prophets Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Baruch, inscribed Liber Carthusien In Buchshaim jpge Memingen . . .
. donatus a nobili dna Eadigunda Eggenbergerin de fiessen (i.e. Fiissen), Eelicta
Eomicelli Georgij Gossenbrot de Eochenfriberg. OreV' g ea et p quib’ desiderauit. This
is the earliest instance of a book-plate in connection with a lady. The first quartering
coniains presumably the arms of her husband, the Junker Georg Gossenbrot, while the
second and third will be those of the Eggenberger family.
A BLANK BOOK-PLATE.
Schr. 2041. See list of books containing woodcuts, at the end of Diyision D.
The cut was not produced “ at Augsburg about 1490-1500,” but at Nuremberg
in 1489, and forms an integral part of the book, “ Versehung leib sel er vnnd gutt,”
Hain 16019.
A 140.
THE ARMS OF JANUS TOLOPLIUS.
The shield bears a half-length figure of Janus, with a black eagle
standing on his shoulders. He holds in his sinister hand a key which
touches a cloud, and in the dexter hand an urn with three stars, from
which a sheet of water issues, bearing a ship. The shield is surrounded
by the collar of the Golden Fleece and surmounted by a helm and a crest
of peacocks’ feathers. At the top of the cut is the following xylographic
description in seven lines :
IANI T0LH0PHI GERMANI VATIS HEHCVLEI | Armorum
Insignia Clipeo Bicolori Coelesti Campo & Aureo Parnaso Iano |
Bicipite Mundi Renouatore Ventre Chaonio Pontificali Lituo Vrna
Stell’ | Celata Deucalionis Aquis Saturnia Rate Claue Coelica Nube
Candida Inachi | Senis & Ganimedis Iuuenis Faciebus Irrorantis
Aquarii Corona Regia & | Aquila desuper Casside Belligera Pauonis
Cauda Cum Argi Oculis J Induuiis Ventiuolis Societa (tis?) Iasonis
Adornata.
Inachus, Ganymede and Aquarius appear to have been omitted for want of space.
The words “ Induviis . . . Jasonis ” describe the Golden Eleece. The rare word
“ induviae ” is found in Plautus and Prudentius. Tolophus is known to have pro-
jected an edition of the latter author, from whom, no doubt, he took it. Since
Hercules = Maximilian (see A 141), Vates Herculeus presumably = Court-poet. The
whole design is enclosed by a single border-line.
[265 X 155.] Not coloured. On old white paper, witbout watermark. An early,
but not contemporary impression.
From the collection of “Ex libris,” etc., bequeathed by Sir A. Wollaston Franks,
K.C.B., in 1897. A former owner has written on the back, as his interpretation of
“ Societatis Jasonis,” “ de la Socie'te de Jesus.”
The inventor of this piece of fancy heraldry was Janus (Johannes) Tolophus, a
learned canon of Regensburg, who was Rector Magnificus of the University ot Ingol-
stadt in 1473, and died in 1503. Ple was a friend and correspondent of Conrad
Celtis, a mathematician and a student of classical literature. None of his works appear
to have been printed (Kobolt, “Baierisches Gelehrten-Lexicon,” 1795, p. 693 : Kliipfel,
“ De Vita et Scriptis C'onradi Celtis,” 1827, Pt. I. pp. 40, 105, 107, 108, 187; Pt. II.
pp. 147, 148, 156).
The Imperial Library at Vienna poseesses an impression of this woodcut on the back
of the same slieet of paper as the following cut, A 141. The two are undoubtedly of