Der Bibel (Volume 2), 1483

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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

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of an Anonymous Donor and Lois and Robert Erburu

Accession Number

2001.73.1.2

Artists / Makers

Master of the Cologne Bibles (artist) German

Anton Koberger (publisher) German, c. 1445 - 1513

Franz Staindorffer (bookbinder) German, active 1474 - 1486

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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

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard

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.