Sammelband, 1503-1513

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Medium

bound volume with eight separately published texts, six with woodcut or wood-engraved title borders and/or initials

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.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 281

Accession Number

2002.60.1.a-h

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Plutarch (author) Greek, c. 45 - c. 125

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Inscription

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”

Provenance

Bibliotheca Laneana, 1757; Dr. Liebenall, 1838; Herimanni; Josephus Salzbergius; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; Anonymous gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971, 281.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 270