Fairfax Murray (German), 333; Brunet, IV, 664-665 ; Dodgson : I, p. 505 (5) ; II, p. 5 (1) & 17 (2-31) ; Muther, 897 ; Proctor, 11031.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition. One of the most important illustrated German books of the early 16th century.<\/span><\/p>\n This narrative of the Passion, accompanied by prayers and commentary, is the work of the German publisher and physician Ulrich Pinder \u2013 no doubt printed on the press he had set up in his own home \u2013 and is illustrated by the finest Nuremberg draughtsmen and engravers of the time.<\/p>\n The magnificent illustrations include 78 woodcuts of which 40 full-page (5 are repeated) and 38 vignettes, the latter occasionally within woodcut borders. <\/p>\n Amongst the larger cuts 32 are by Hans Leonhard Sch\u00e4ufelein (v. 1480-v. 1540), apprentice and collaborator of Albrecht D\u00fcrer, who also worked with Hans Holbein. His woodcuts are used here for the first time.<\/p>\n “It is fairly evident that Sch\u00e4ufelein in several of these cuts was indebted to D\u00fcrer’s great Passion ; according to Dodgson he originally worked in D\u00fcrer’s studio and painted an altarpiece from the latter’s designs” (Hugh W. Davies, Fairfax Murray Cat.).<\/p>\n Some of the pieces engraved by Scha\u00fcfelein also reveal the influence of the work of the great Martin Sch\u00f6ngauer (c. 1448\u20131491), an artist admired by Michelangelo and whom D\u00fcrer would have liked to have studied under \u2013 a plan thwarted by Sch\u00f6ngauer\u2019s untimely death.<\/p>\n Dodgson attributes two other woodcuts (A2v and L6) to Hans Baldung Grien (v. 1484-1545), who is known to have worked with D\u00fcrer in Nuremberg between 1503 and 1507<\/p>\n Rubricated copy, with initials and small letters in red<\/p>\n Provenance : Pietro et Giuseppe Vallardi, book sellers and publishers in Milan in the 19th century (library sticker) – O’Sullivan de Terdek, Bruges (armorial book plat with the motto “Modestia Victrix”).<\/p>\n Fine copy with broad margined and in a fine, early decorated German binding.<\/p>\n Light wear and small restorations to spine, endpapers renewed in the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Folio (308 x 206 mm) 91 ll. including title page and numbered leaves I-XC (Collation: A-O6, P-Q4, without the last blank), 2 columns, 60 lines. Contemporary blindstamped half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, spine with four raised bands, title on front cover in ink, one central lock (clasp missing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":91197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1238,1243,1267,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-91212","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-16th-century-illustrations","8":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"product_tag-first-edition","11":"pa_auteur-pinder-ulrich-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Ulrich PINDER","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Nuremberg, chez l'Auteur, 1507","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":"oui"},"yoast_head":"\n