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Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
clasp on the breast, but open in front, over a robe which falls in straight
folds without a girdle. The drapery is good and carefully shacled. His
feet are bare. As a background to the hgure of Ckrist, a straight piece
of tapestry with a large pattern, reaching nearly to the ground, hangs
by a cord from a rod which is suspended behind the nimbus. 'lhe ground
is varied by four piants of various kinds, and several tufts of grass. The
print is surrounded by a double border, joined at the four corners. On
the border is the following inscription in black Gothic letters on a white
ground: &m htlOung t.st gemacfjt nacf) tfev mensdjeit Sije.su ertstt |
ais er auff' ertretei) gegangen tgt Fntf also tjat er ettt tjar bntf etn
hart hnh Itepltcij angest^1 i geljaht ^ueij etn soltcljen roelt hnh
ntantcl Fntf harfus? i tst cr gcgattgcu Euetj tst er tfes tjauptes lettger
gehtesctt tfamt all amttfcr ntettseljcn ttff ertfen.
[270 X 172.] In good preservation. Colours: scarlet, carmine, yellow, yellow
oclire, yellowish green, steel blue, grey-black. On tlie verso are thirty-five lines of
text. Begin : In dem namen des herrren amen. Hie vahet sich an | ein plenari nach
orduung der heyligen crislenlichen | kirchen .... Eud: . . . Darnach vnd am.
The initial I is a large ornamental letter printed from a wood-block, with flonrishes
which extend down the whole side of the page, Strong white paper withont water-
mark or wire-mark.
A copy of tliis edition of the Plenarium (not in Hain) is in the British Museum.
The cut iu this copy is not coloured. According to Muther (no. 37) the same cut was
used in another Plenarium, 1171 (Kraenzler, Yerzeiehniss der Augsburger Incunabeln,
no. 51), printrd by J. Bamler (not iu Haiu). A copy of that book was in the library
of the late William Morris. The occnrrence of the same cut in books printed by
Zainer and by Bainler may perhaps be explained by the fact that both were printiug
in the Monastery of SS. UJrieh and Afra in 1473 (Zainer, Speculum Humanse Salvu-
tionis, according to MS. note, dated 1473, in Mr. Fairfax Murray’s copy; Bamler,
Dialogues of St. Gregory).
Presented bv W. Mitcliell, Esq., 1895. Another impression, described as “ tirage a
part ancien,” presumably without text on verso, coloured, is in the Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris (from the Hennin collection). Modern impressions are said to exist.
D 2 (1-5).
1475. Eive cuts from Cunrat von Megenberg, Buch der Natur, fol. Augsburg,
J. Bamler, 1475, 1478,1481. Bain 4041-3; Mutber 43-5; Proctor 1613,
1626; Choulant in Naumann’s Arcliiv f. d. Zeiclin. Kiinste, iii, 286-308.
(1) Two PHYSiorANS Examining a Patient. Scbr. 1933. Proutispiece to tlie
first part, treating of man.
A iniddle-agecl man with a beard stands against a pillar, which forms
the central support of a vaultecl room with paved floor ancl round-arched
windovv. ITe lias no clotliing but a loin-cloth, ancl his position recalls,
at first sight, the common representation of the scourging of Christ.
To the 1. a physician, wearing a high cloctor’s cap, a hood, and a long
gown without a girdle, holds a urinal in his r. hancl, and points with
his 1. hand to the heacl of the patient. The other physician, r., wears a
flat biretta, a hood, and a gown with a girclle. He holcls an open book
in his 1. hancl, ancl lays his r. hancl below the I. breast of the patient, who
has put his own hancl similarly uncler the r. breast, as though to point
out the seat of his pain. The print is closed at the top by a round arch
resting on two columns, and surroundecl on all sides by a double border.
Hatching is freely usecl in the clrapery, and the wall at the back is shaded
by vigorous strokes slanting from 1. to r.
Fine impression, with wide margin [18-40], on stout paper; watermark, bull’s
Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
clasp on the breast, but open in front, over a robe which falls in straight
folds without a girdle. The drapery is good and carefully shacled. His
feet are bare. As a background to the hgure of Ckrist, a straight piece
of tapestry with a large pattern, reaching nearly to the ground, hangs
by a cord from a rod which is suspended behind the nimbus. 'lhe ground
is varied by four piants of various kinds, and several tufts of grass. The
print is surrounded by a double border, joined at the four corners. On
the border is the following inscription in black Gothic letters on a white
ground: &m htlOung t.st gemacfjt nacf) tfev mensdjeit Sije.su ertstt |
ais er auff' ertretei) gegangen tgt Fntf also tjat er ettt tjar bntf etn
hart hnh Itepltcij angest^1 i geljaht ^ueij etn soltcljen roelt hnh
ntantcl Fntf harfus? i tst cr gcgattgcu Euetj tst er tfes tjauptes lettger
gehtesctt tfamt all amttfcr ntettseljcn ttff ertfen.
[270 X 172.] In good preservation. Colours: scarlet, carmine, yellow, yellow
oclire, yellowish green, steel blue, grey-black. On tlie verso are thirty-five lines of
text. Begin : In dem namen des herrren amen. Hie vahet sich an | ein plenari nach
orduung der heyligen crislenlichen | kirchen .... Eud: . . . Darnach vnd am.
The initial I is a large ornamental letter printed from a wood-block, with flonrishes
which extend down the whole side of the page, Strong white paper withont water-
mark or wire-mark.
A copy of tliis edition of the Plenarium (not in Hain) is in the British Museum.
The cut iu this copy is not coloured. According to Muther (no. 37) the same cut was
used in another Plenarium, 1171 (Kraenzler, Yerzeiehniss der Augsburger Incunabeln,
no. 51), printrd by J. Bamler (not iu Haiu). A copy of that book was in the library
of the late William Morris. The occnrrence of the same cut in books printed by
Zainer and by Bainler may perhaps be explained by the fact that both were printiug
in the Monastery of SS. UJrieh and Afra in 1473 (Zainer, Speculum Humanse Salvu-
tionis, according to MS. note, dated 1473, in Mr. Fairfax Murray’s copy; Bamler,
Dialogues of St. Gregory).
Presented bv W. Mitcliell, Esq., 1895. Another impression, described as “ tirage a
part ancien,” presumably without text on verso, coloured, is in the Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris (from the Hennin collection). Modern impressions are said to exist.
D 2 (1-5).
1475. Eive cuts from Cunrat von Megenberg, Buch der Natur, fol. Augsburg,
J. Bamler, 1475, 1478,1481. Bain 4041-3; Mutber 43-5; Proctor 1613,
1626; Choulant in Naumann’s Arcliiv f. d. Zeiclin. Kiinste, iii, 286-308.
(1) Two PHYSiorANS Examining a Patient. Scbr. 1933. Proutispiece to tlie
first part, treating of man.
A iniddle-agecl man with a beard stands against a pillar, which forms
the central support of a vaultecl room with paved floor ancl round-arched
windovv. ITe lias no clotliing but a loin-cloth, ancl his position recalls,
at first sight, the common representation of the scourging of Christ.
To the 1. a physician, wearing a high cloctor’s cap, a hood, and a long
gown without a girdle, holds a urinal in his r. hancl, and points with
his 1. hand to the heacl of the patient. The other physician, r., wears a
flat biretta, a hood, and a gown with a girclle. He holcls an open book
in his 1. hancl, ancl lays his r. hancl below the I. breast of the patient, who
has put his own hancl similarly uncler the r. breast, as though to point
out the seat of his pain. The print is closed at the top by a round arch
resting on two columns, and surroundecl on all sides by a double border.
Hatching is freely usecl in the clrapery, and the wall at the back is shaded
by vigorous strokes slanting from 1. to r.
Fine impression, with wide margin [18-40], on stout paper; watermark, bull’s