Der Bibel (Volume 2)
1483
Anton Koberger (publisher) and the Master of the Cologne Bibles
Artist, German
Publisher, German, c. 1445 - 1513
Bookbinder, German, active 1474 - 1486
Artwork overview
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Medium
illustrated book in 2 volumes with 109 woodcuts; illustrations and initials colored and decorated with gold leaf by contemporary hand; bound in blind-stamped calf over wooden boards with engraved metal clasps and corner pieces on volume 2
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall size (volume closed): 42.1 x 29.3 x 7.8 cm (16 9/16 x 11 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
page size: 41 x 28 cm (16 1/8 x 11 in.) -
Accession Number
2001.73.1.2
Associated Artworks
Der Bible (Volume 1)
Master of the Cologne Bibles, Anton Koberger, Franz Staindorffer
1483
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alfred Pfeiffer. (Martin Beslauer, Inc., New York). (sale, Sotheby's London, 7 December 2000, no. 1); (Bernard Quartich, Ltd., London); purchased 2001 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 2, repro.
Bibliography
1980
Martin Breslauer, Inc. Fine Books in Fine Bindings from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: Catalogue 104, Part II. New York, 1980 - 1981, no. 128.