Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woodcut Illustrations—coztinued. 1798 BERTHOLDUS. Zeitglocklein. Das andechtig Zeitglocklein des Lebens und Leidens Christi. Nach den vierundzweintzig Stunden aussgeteilt. Black Letter, two types, 23 long lines to a full page. Wzeth 20 magnificent woodcuts, of which 24 are identical with the woodcuts in the first Latin edition published at Nuremberg by\ the same publisher on the 11th May, 1489. In addition there is a frontispiece shewing a clock- face with a bell on the top and Judas demanding thirty pieces of silver from the priests. Small 8vo, brown morocco extra, with antique gilt ornaments, £. é., by Hardy. Nuremberg, Friederich Creussner, Oth April, 1493. £105 Each woodcut occupies a page by itself without text. Small letters are used for initials and are painted over in red in this copy. The woodcuts are as follows :— (1) The Annunciation. (12) Jesus before Pilate. {2) The Nativity. (13) Jesus mocked. (3) The Circumcision. (14) The flagellation. (4) The Three Kings. (15) Pilate washing his hands. (5; The Flight into Egypt. (16) Jesus nailed to the Cross. (6) The Money-changers driven from the (17) The Cross being raised. Temple. (18) The Crucifixion. (7) The Baptism. (19) Jesus being put into the grave. (8) The Last Supper and the Foot-Wash- (20) Purgatory. ing. (21) The Resurrection. (9) Jesus on the Mount of Olives. (22) The Ascension. 410) The Arrest. (23) The Ascent of the Holy Ghost. (11) Jesus before Caiphas. (24) The Last Judgment. In addition, to the defective copy at the British Museum we have only been able to trace (according to Schreiber) three further copies, all of which are in German Libraries, viz., the Prussian State Library at Berlin, the Bavarian State Library at Munich, and the Library at Zwickau. Hain *16279. Proctor 2159. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. II., p. 454. (The British Museum copy wants ten leaves.)