Der Schatzbehalter oder Schrein der waren Reichtümer des Heils und ewige Seligkeit
1491
Artist, German, 1434 - 1519
Artist, German, c. 1458 - 1494
Author, German, 1430 - 1498
Printer, German, c. 1445 - 1513
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 96 full page hand-colored woodcuts from 91 blocks
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 35.5 x 24.8 x 8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2010.82.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber Manuel, no. 5202
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
St. Walburg (presumably The Benedictine nunnery at Eichstätt, or possibly the Walburgiskapelle at Nuremberg; inscription on front pastedown: Das Puch gehort zu Sanct Walpurge). Rudolf Graf von Stillfried [1804-1882] (Bibliotheca Stillfridiana bookplate). Jorge Beristayn (bookplate). Louis H. Silver (booklabel; sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's 8 November 1965, to Maggs). Hartung, Munich, 1994. (Christie's, London, via Bernard Quaritch Ltd.); purchased 2010 by NGA.
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Bibliography
1898
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. London, 1898-1902: no. 14507.
1911
Schreiber, Wilhelm. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur metal au XVe siecle. 5 vols. Berlin and Leipzig, 1891-1911: 248, no. 5202.
1925
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, hrsg., von der Kommission fu¨r den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke .... Leipzig, 1925: 10329.
1964
Goff, Frederick R. _Incunabula in American Libraries, a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections._New York, 1964: 551, no. S-306.
1981
Strauss, Walter L., Carol Schuler. The Illustrated Bartsch: German Book Illustration before 1500. New York, 1981-1984: 277, no. 8791.