Der Bibel (Volume 2)

1483

Master of the Cologne Bibles

Artist, German

Anton Koberger

Publisher, German, c. 1445 - 1513

Franz Staindorffer

Bookbinder, German, active 1474 - 1486

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    illustrated book in 2 volumes with 109 woodcuts; illustrations and initials colored and decorated with gold leaf by contemporary hand; bound in blind-stamped calf over wooden boards with engraved metal clasps and corner pieces on volume 2

  • Credit Line

    Gift of an Anonymous Donor and Lois and Robert Erburu

  • Dimensions

    overall size (volume closed): 42.1 x 29.3 x 7.8 cm (16 9/16 x 11 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
    page size: 41 x 28 cm (16 1/8 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.73.1.2

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Associated Artworks

Der Bible (Volume 1)

Master of the Cologne Bibles, Anton Koberger, Franz Staindorffer

1483

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Pfeiffer. (Martin Beslauer, Inc., New York). (sale, Sotheby's London, 7 December 2000, no. 1); (Bernard Quartich, Ltd., London); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 2, repro.

Bibliography

1980

  • Martin Breslauer, Inc. Fine Books in Fine Bindings from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: Catalogue 104, Part II. New York, 1980 - 1981, no. 128.

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