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XIY.-—ANOISTYMOUS WOODCUTS OF NUKEMBERG
ORIGIN.
1. A BALLAD OF THE HOLY COAT OF TRIER.
The cut represents the coat, a cross, the bust of a bishop, a clie, a
sabre, a nail, and a reclining bishop. It is printed at the beginning of
the ballad, which is in 27 stanzas, beginning, “ Yncl wolt jr horen zu diser
frist, was zu Trier geschehen ist,” etc., with the heading, “ Das ist das liecl
von dem Rock | vnsers lieben herren Jesu christi.”
[Cut, 81 x 65 ; sheet, 317 x 210.] Watermark, a small jug.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., 1862.
See Weller, “ Repertorium Typographicum,” Suppl. no. 79, and Beissel, “ Geschichte
der Trierer Kirchen,” 1889, ii, 107 (10). The text is printed in Pfeifter’s “ Germania,”
1872, p. 445, and in Centralbl. f. Bibliotheksivesen, 1887, p. 510. The Holy Coat was
found in 1512. Mr. Proctor informs me that the type of this broadside is that of Jobst
Gutknecht, who began printing at Nuremberg in 1514 : he would date the broadside
somewhat later.
[2-5.]
ILLUSTRATIONS TO POEMS BY HAUS SACHS.
2. SATIRE AGAINST THE CLERGY. 1532.
In the foreground is a wattled fence over which a priest and a herruit
are encleavouring to chmb, with an open gate 1. ancl a watchdog chainecl
outside it. Within the fence is a vineyarcl. It contains dead trees,
watered and tended by the Pope and by monks, the fruits of which are
rosaries, indulgences, vestments and monkish habits, numerous appliances
of Roman Catholic worship, and (on one tree) loaves and fishes. The
Almighty is about to uproot one of these trees, while angels are busily
pulling up the vines which bear no grapes and throwing the dead stems
and their stakes into a bonfire. A monk is scooping out the mud from an
empty well, contrasted with the clear water that flows from a spring at
the foot of the true vine, which bears Christ crucified upon its branches.
The living vines in the vineyard, which bear grapes, appear to take their
nourishment from this source. Near the true vine is a scroll with the
xylographic inscription, “ Yil hirten haben meinen Weingarte | verwustet.
Sy zertratten meinenn | erbtail Jerem. 12. Sy reden ge- | sicht Ires
hertzen nicht vom munde | des herren. Ich erzurnet vh schlug in | umb die
mysehat seiner geizigkeit Isa. 52.” To 1. is a reformed priest, preaching
to a crowd of standing men and seated women. Over his head is a scroll
with the words, “ Selig synnd die das Wort gottis horen | vnnd es behalten
Auch darnach handeln.” Single border-line. At the top is printed,
“ Christus spricht, Ein yede pflantz die Gott mein hymelischer vater nicht
gepflantzet hat, wird auszgereut vnd in das feur geworffen, Matthei . xv.”
XIY.-—ANOISTYMOUS WOODCUTS OF NUKEMBERG
ORIGIN.
1. A BALLAD OF THE HOLY COAT OF TRIER.
The cut represents the coat, a cross, the bust of a bishop, a clie, a
sabre, a nail, and a reclining bishop. It is printed at the beginning of
the ballad, which is in 27 stanzas, beginning, “ Yncl wolt jr horen zu diser
frist, was zu Trier geschehen ist,” etc., with the heading, “ Das ist das liecl
von dem Rock | vnsers lieben herren Jesu christi.”
[Cut, 81 x 65 ; sheet, 317 x 210.] Watermark, a small jug.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., 1862.
See Weller, “ Repertorium Typographicum,” Suppl. no. 79, and Beissel, “ Geschichte
der Trierer Kirchen,” 1889, ii, 107 (10). The text is printed in Pfeifter’s “ Germania,”
1872, p. 445, and in Centralbl. f. Bibliotheksivesen, 1887, p. 510. The Holy Coat was
found in 1512. Mr. Proctor informs me that the type of this broadside is that of Jobst
Gutknecht, who began printing at Nuremberg in 1514 : he would date the broadside
somewhat later.
[2-5.]
ILLUSTRATIONS TO POEMS BY HAUS SACHS.
2. SATIRE AGAINST THE CLERGY. 1532.
In the foreground is a wattled fence over which a priest and a herruit
are encleavouring to chmb, with an open gate 1. ancl a watchdog chainecl
outside it. Within the fence is a vineyarcl. It contains dead trees,
watered and tended by the Pope and by monks, the fruits of which are
rosaries, indulgences, vestments and monkish habits, numerous appliances
of Roman Catholic worship, and (on one tree) loaves and fishes. The
Almighty is about to uproot one of these trees, while angels are busily
pulling up the vines which bear no grapes and throwing the dead stems
and their stakes into a bonfire. A monk is scooping out the mud from an
empty well, contrasted with the clear water that flows from a spring at
the foot of the true vine, which bears Christ crucified upon its branches.
The living vines in the vineyard, which bear grapes, appear to take their
nourishment from this source. Near the true vine is a scroll with the
xylographic inscription, “ Yil hirten haben meinen Weingarte | verwustet.
Sy zertratten meinenn | erbtail Jerem. 12. Sy reden ge- | sicht Ires
hertzen nicht vom munde | des herren. Ich erzurnet vh schlug in | umb die
mysehat seiner geizigkeit Isa. 52.” To 1. is a reformed priest, preaching
to a crowd of standing men and seated women. Over his head is a scroll
with the words, “ Selig synnd die das Wort gottis horen | vnnd es behalten
Auch darnach handeln.” Single border-line. At the top is printed,
“ Christus spricht, Ein yede pflantz die Gott mein hymelischer vater nicht
gepflantzet hat, wird auszgereut vnd in das feur geworffen, Matthei . xv.”