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BSB find of the day: Book Illustrations
Jun. 20th, 2008 07:37 amThe theme of the day is book illustrations.
Ars moriendi ©Quamvis secundum philosophum ..., [Leipzig] [ca. 1495/98] [BSB-Ink A-771 - GW 2577]
I believe that this is an illustrated volume of the types of temptations that a man faces while on his death bed. Sort of the medieval version of his life flashing before his eyes?
Von dem sterben ein nützbarlich büchlein, wie ein yder christen mensch recht jn warem christen glaube[n] sterbe[n] sol vn[d] die anfechtung des bösen geystes widersteen, Landßhut 1520 [VD16 S 8184]
A slightly later work on the same death-bed subject. The title page has the nicest illustration.
Almanach, [Augsburg] [ca. 1477/78] [BSB-Ink A-341 - GW 1325]
A nice broadsheet almanach for 1478
Abu-Ma°sar Ga°far Ibn-Muhammad / Johannes: Flores Albumasaris, Augsburg 1488.11.18. [BSB-Ink A-227 - GW 837]
For those of you interested in astrology and astronomy, a period text on the subject, with really nice line drawings of the signs and planets.
Aesopus / Steinhöwel, Heinrich: Fabulae, Sammlung des Heinrich Steinhöwel, [Augsburg] [ca. 1477/78] [BSB-Ink A-70 - GW 352] Aesop's Fables again, but this time the woodcuts have been hand painted in four or five colors. There are several of these Aesop's fables that are painted that the BSB has recently digitized, but this is the nicest one I've seen yet. The scenes are rich in detail and humor.
The binding looks original to me, the leather covering the spine may have been replaced. It probably originally looked like this one from 1483
König, Kilian: Processes und Practica der Gerichts leuffte, nach dem Gebrauch Sechsischer Landart, Leipzig 1541 [VD16 K 1847] The frontispiece on this book is especially nice for the dancing couples and Salome scene.
Ryff, Walther Hermann: Die kleyner Chirurgei, Straßburg 1542 [VD16 R 3916] Another medical book, not as many illustrations in this one though.
Ars moriendi ©Quamvis secundum philosophum ..., [Leipzig] [ca. 1495/98] [BSB-Ink A-771 - GW 2577]
I believe that this is an illustrated volume of the types of temptations that a man faces while on his death bed. Sort of the medieval version of his life flashing before his eyes?
Von dem sterben ein nützbarlich büchlein, wie ein yder christen mensch recht jn warem christen glaube[n] sterbe[n] sol vn[d] die anfechtung des bösen geystes widersteen, Landßhut 1520 [VD16 S 8184]
A slightly later work on the same death-bed subject. The title page has the nicest illustration.
Almanach, [Augsburg] [ca. 1477/78] [BSB-Ink A-341 - GW 1325]
A nice broadsheet almanach for 1478
Abu-Ma°sar Ga°far Ibn-Muhammad / Johannes
For those of you interested in astrology and astronomy, a period text on the subject, with really nice line drawings of the signs and planets.
Aesopus / Steinhöwel, Heinrich: Fabulae, Sammlung des Heinrich Steinhöwel, [Augsburg] [ca. 1477/78] [BSB-Ink A-70 - GW 352] Aesop's Fables again, but this time the woodcuts have been hand painted in four or five colors. There are several of these Aesop's fables that are painted that the BSB has recently digitized, but this is the nicest one I've seen yet. The scenes are rich in detail and humor.
The binding looks original to me, the leather covering the spine may have been replaced. It probably originally looked like this one from 1483
König, Kilian: Processes und Practica der Gerichts leuffte, nach dem Gebrauch Sechsischer Landart, Leipzig 1541 [VD16 K 1847] The frontispiece on this book is especially nice for the dancing couples and Salome scene.
Ryff, Walther Hermann: Die kleyner Chirurgei, Straßburg 1542 [VD16 R 3916] Another medical book, not as many illustrations in this one though.
