Speculum passionis domini nostri Jesu Christi (Mirror of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ)

1519 (1st ed. 1507)

Wolf Traut

Artist, German, c. 1486 - 1520

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

Artist, German, c. 1485 - 1522

Hans Leonard Schäufelein

Artist, German, c. 1480/1485 - 1538/1540

Erhard Schön

Artist, German, c. 1491 - 1542

Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

Ulrich Pinder

Author, German, died 1510/1519

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound illustrated book with 40 woodcut illustrations (5 are repeated).

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

  • Dimensions

    overall size (volume closed): 29.9 x 20 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
    page size: 29.5 x 19.4 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.115.1

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Associated Artworks

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Christ Crowned with Thorns [38v]

Hans Leonard Schäufelein

1519

The Agony in the Garden [19v]

Hans Leonard Schäufelein

1519

Christ before Herod in a Hall [32v]

Hans Leonard Schäufelein

1519


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

C.H.A.M., 1606 (binding); Benedictine Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul, Melk, 1642. Hermann Marx, Cobham, England (d. 1948) (Lugt 2816a); (sale, Sotheby's London, 19 April 1948, no. 120). Davis and Orioli. William Alfred Westropp Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, Essex (1885 - 1963); (sale, Sotheby's London, 11 July 2000, no. 251); (Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on first free endpaper, in brown ink: In usum fratris Placide (not deciphered) / Anno Dni 1660 16 February / Laebrymans exaranit multa scriptes bing / libri


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