Inscriptiones Sacrosanctae Vetustatis

1534

Bartholomeus Amantius

Author

Hans Brosamer

Artist, German, c. 1500 - 1552 or 1554

Petrus Apianus

Printer, German, 1495 - 1552

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 135 half- and full-page woodcuts, including a large woodcut after a drawing by Dürer on the title-page; 7 woodcut initials and numerous woodcut borders and devices throughout

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

  • Dimensions

    book: 29.6 x 21 x 4 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.94.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 119-252

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

ownership monogram "SC" on spine. Dr. Hans and Helene Bret Schneider v. Rechttreu (bookplate by E. Krahl). (Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, Catalogue 1437, 2009: no. 22); Vincent and Linda Buonanno, Chicago; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Hans and Martin Brosamer, Martin Knauer, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015; Part I, nos. 119-252.

Inscriptions

title inked on spine:INSCRIPTIONES SACROSANCTAE VETUSTATIS APPIANI; inside upper cover in graphite: Saal / not deciphered; in brown pen über John (?). Ajiruuf v. Lit (?). (not deciphered. 4. L. (not deciphered) 1804.4/N. XVI [?]. 255f.-

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