"Organum Uranicum" and "Organa Planetarum", 1536

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Medium

two volumes bound together, containing 23 hand-colored woodcuts, 14 of which have movable volvelles, dials, and pointers

Dimensions

book: 30 × 20 × 1.7 cm (11 13/16 × 7 7/8 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William J. Wyer

Accession Number

2013.153.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Holbein the Younger (artist) German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Sebastian M. Münster (author) German, 1489 - 1552

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Inscription

by later hands, inside upper cover, upper left in brown ink, pasted in: 1032 Dag /[?]gies / 279114; in graphite: D S1-1-; lower left in graphite: Lto.B. 1573; across bottom in brown ink: page. tab. 6.n.38.p.79; frist endpaper upper center in graphite: en / 13 volvelles; center in brown ink: C28; across top of title-page in brown ink: Collegii Lugdunensis Societatis Jesu. Catal. Inscript. 1654; verso last endpaper in graphite upper left: Mrs. [H?]arp-; inside lower cover upper right in graphite: S. Sm / 109744 / RES: ARX; lower right [z?]

Provenance

Jesuit College of Lyon (inscription on title-page: Collegii Lugdunensis Societatis Jesu), recorded in their catalogue: Catal. Inscrip. 1654. William J. Wyer, New York; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Wyer, William J.

Bibliography

1964: Burmeister, Karl Heinz. Sebastian Münster: eine Bibliographie. Wiesbaden, 1963: no. 43.