(Q43179)
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Nonnberg Passion (Woodcut set)
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Nonnberg (Abbey)
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Prayer books--Germany--15th century
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Woodcuts (prints)--Germany--15th century
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between 1440 and 1460
15. century
1440Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: ff. iii + 159 (1 = contemp. flyleaf) + iii : illustrations (woodcuts), parchment ; 74 x 109 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Hybrida.
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Layout: Collation beginning at f. 2: 16 2-208. Catchwords, cropped, in a noting hand in the lower right corner; on f. 103v, which is followed by the woodcut of the Ascension, the "catchword" is "dy auffart." Quire signatures in arabic numerals in the lower right corner of the first leaf of the gathering. On the four quires containing all the woodcuts but one, ff. 80-111, the leaves of the...
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Decoration: Two hand-produced drawings, and eighteen woodcuts known as the "Nonnberg Passion" printed directly on the frame ruled leaves of the quires (rather than being separate sheets affixed to the pages, or separate leaves tipped into the quires), ca. 93 x 63 mm., colored with an opaque water based paint, and numbered in contemporary roman numerals in red ink in the upper margin (this...
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Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/24/2009.
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Written in Bavaria on the basis of the dialect and the origin of the woodcuts, in the middle of the fifteenth century; the dates 1433 and 1435 on ff. 53 and 70 are thought to be the dates of translation of the texts rather than the dates of transcription. Belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Nonnbergin the diocese of Salzburg, where it apparently bore the pressmark 26.A*.11 (not in the book...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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