Sanctus Bernhardinus, 1450s

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.2 x 14.8 cm (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

sheet: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. I, no. 11, State (as "Master of 1462")

Accession Number

2002.25.1

Artists / Makers

Master of Balaam (artist) German, active c. 1450 - 1475

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: Sanctus / bernhardus; by 15th century hand, across top of page:
…
…Alcuinus poeta magister . . .
…Haec divina dei placeat scriptura. Precamur.//Sensibus atque oculis lector honeste tuis//Spiritus hanc celi- dictavit ab arce//In qua vera fides fulget et alma salus.
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…[see also: commentary]
…
…

Provenance

Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff, Berlin, 1736. Bibliothek, Marienstifts-Gymnasium, Stettin, after 1736. Private collection; (Jörn Guenther, Hamburg); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Günther, Jörn

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge