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)

42G

Early German ancl Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.

Doubtful.

25. [BRANDENBURG.] Brandenburgische halszgerichts ordnung.
J. Gutknecht, Nuremberg, Noy. 1516; fol.

Three cuts [240 X 170], in the manner of Springinklee or Sohon, perhaps ratlier the
latter. On the title-page, a collection of instruments of torture; on verso of same leaf,
the arms of Brandenburg with griffins as supporters, an arch of vine-branches at the
top; on leaf i r., the Last Judgment, in which the head of the Baptist is almost the
sarae as in the large Rosary and in tbe Yirgin with the Carthusian Monks (see p. 428).
The two groups below, in which the saved are conducted into glory, and the lost are
driven into the jaws of hell, appear to be freely imitated from the woodcuts attributed
to Ilans von Kulmbach, H. 2052 (see p. 353), though the book in which the latter
appeared is dated 1517.

26. [WERNER.] Libellus Ioannis Verneri Nurembergen. super
vigintiduobus elementis conicis. E. Peypus, Nuremberg, 1522 ; 4to.

Border on title-page, of four blocks ; candelabra at sides, arch and dolphins at top;
below, angels kneeling and supporting a shield with the device of Peypus and initials
F P [169 X 133]. Inferior work, but probably designed by Schon, to judge by the
faces of the angels. The border had been used in 1520 or earlier, and occurs again in
“ Andr. Althameri Brenzii Scholia in Cornelium Tacitum . . . De situ . . .
Germanise,” 1529. Some initials with saints in Werner’s book—C (St. Simon), 0 (the
Yirgin), P (St. Peter?), T (two apostles) [18 x 18]—appear to be by Schon, as well as
the larger initials with children, foliage, etc., on a shaded ground [28 x 28], which
occur iu many books printed by Peypus (e.g. the O.T. and N.T., 1524).