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)

446 Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.

WOODCUTS B Y BEITAM.

i. BIBLICAL SUBJECTS.

[1-36.]

AVoodcuts from the Principal Set of Old Testament Illustrations.

Pauli 271-358.

This series of illustrations comprises 80 wooclcuts, first issued in 1533,
75 of which beiong to the Old Testament itself, while the remaining 5
represent the Evangelists and St. Paul. Two additional subjects appeared
in Dietenberger’s Bible in 1534. Three title-borders, one of quarto, the
others of foho size, were issued with various editions of these woodcuts;
of the third title there are five varieties, with different combinations of
blocks. Some of the blocks were still in use in the xvii century.

1. TITLE-BORDER TO THE OLD TESTAMENT WOODCUTS.

B. 1. R. 1. A. 1. S. 1. Pauli 271.

The border contains six subjects from the life of Moses, cut on a
single block. At the top, the Passage of the Bed Sea and the Gathering
of Manna; 1., Moses receiving the Tables of the Law; below, the Brazen
Serpent and the Worship of the Golden Calf; r., Moses breaking the
Tables of the Law.

Within the border is printed, “ BIBLICAE | historiae, ar = | ti-
jiciosissime dejpictse. | Biblische Hi = | storien, Figiirlich j fiirgebildet.” |
(Monogram.) On the margin below the border, “ Cum Cses. Maiestatis
Priuilegio, Francoforti | Christianus EgenoVphus excudehat.” On the back,
the Creation of Eve, Pauli 277, with title in Latin and German.

[123 X 83.] Good impression.

Purcliased from Herr Gutekunst. 1870.

The border was used in nine editions of the Old Testament woodcuts, from 1533 to
1557. This impression is from the sixth, 1537. For the first, see p. 440, no. 1.

2. PART OE THE PEINCIPAL TITLE-BORDER TO THE BIBLE OF 1534.

B. vii, 182, 28. H. 1933. Pauli 272 (1).

God the Eather sits enthroned on the rainbow, surrounded by angels,
holding the Tables of the Law in his r. hand, a chalice in his 1. hand.
Below, 1., the Fall and the Expulsion from Eden ; r., the Crucifixion and
Christ bearing the cross, with priests and laymen following his example.

[68 x 166.] A raiher iate impression.

Purcbased from Mr. Tiffin, 1849.

This woodcut, formerly attributed to Diirer, forms the upper compartment of the
title-horder to the fulio German Bible printed at Frankfort by Egenolph, 26 March,
1534. See Repertorium, i, 324; Jahrh. d. k. preuss. Iiunstsamml. iii, 234. The ivliole
border is reproduced in Lippmann’s “ Engravings and Woodcuts,” iii. 42.