Missal for Passau

1505

Hans Burgkmair I

Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

Erhard Ratdolt

Publisher, German, 1447 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 4 woodcut illustrations; 2 full-page woodcuts by Burgkmair, the first printed in black, red and ochre blocks with additional hand-coloring in green, light-brown, beige, and brown on laid paper; the second fully colored by hand and printed on vellum;1 half-page Dominical Calendar, and 1 Agnus Dei roundel in red and black

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    page size: 34.8 × 22.8 cm (13 11/16 × 9 in.)
    book: 36.8 x 24.8 x 7 cm (14 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.130.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Daniella Laube, Cat. 5, no. 3); Collection of William J. Wyer, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 20.

Bibliography

1922

  • Schottenloher, Karl.Die liturgischen Druckwerke Erhard Ratdolts aus Augsburg, 1485-1522. Mainz, 1922: xvii.

1967

  • Adams, Herbert Mayow. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600. Cambridge U.P, 1967: L-1190.

Inscriptions

stamped on cover: Missale; in brown ink on foredge: missale / 74.a; inside upper cover bottom center in brown ink: VII 5134; lower cover upper center in graphite: Coll. Cpet.

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