Sammelband
1503-1513
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artist
Author, Greek, c. 45 - c. 125
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with eight separately published texts, six with woodcut or wood-engraved title borders and/or initials
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 20.9 x 14.8 cm (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)
overall: 21.9 x 15.1 cm (8 5/8 x 5 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2002.60.1.g
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 281
Associated Artworks
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Albrecht Dürer, Italian 16th Century, Plutarch
1503
Sammelband
Italian 16th Century, Plutarch, Albrecht Dürer
1503
Epistole Phalaridis Noviter Impresse / The Letters of Phalaris
Italian 16th Century, Plutarch, Phalaris
1505
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bibliotheca Laneana, 1757; Dr. Liebenall, 1838; Herimanni; Josephus Salzbergius; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; Anonymous gift to NGA, 2002.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
pagination in pen and brown ink upper left or right corner of each page; on paper label on lower spine in red ink: XXXI. / 4426; in black ink: Phalaridis / 1505 (followed by undecipherable numbers)
front paste-down: top half of page in pen and brown ink, contents of the book are listed; ur in graphite, “Tarquin super Temp[indeciph.] / Pythagoras war 5 mond[indeciph.]”; also ur in graphite, circled, “xxxi.e. / 4426”; lc in graphite, “pg 63 Athen fabri perilai mors in tauro quo fecerat / __68 Sthesicoro poetae litt[indecip] / __275 Semiramis grab”
front free endpaper: uc in pen and brown ink, “Ex Bibliotheca / Laneana / 1757”; below in pen and brown ink, in another hand, “Dr Liebenall. / [indecip] d. Buch / 1838 zum Nahmenstage”; below pen and brown ink, in another hand, “Josephus Salzbergius ex dono Herimanni”; ul in graphite, “0599 / DON”; ur in graphite, “2416”; cr in graphite, “8 works bound in 1 volume / including the First Printed Cookery Book / APICIUS. De re coquinaria libri decem / [Venice: 1503] [Fourth edition]”
back paste-down: ur in graphite, “HBS 32518D / 10282”