Nuremberg · 1491 · Anton Koberger

Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils

Stephan Fridolin

Full-page woodcut: the tenth figure — Full-page Wolgemut–Pleydenwurff woodcut, "Die zehend figur" — two stags flanking a flowering tree (Tree of Life motif), leaf 00090.

Full-page narrative woodcut: the fiftieth figure — Full-page narrative woodcut, "Die fünfftzigist figur" — a multi-scene Passion-cycle composition with a chariot, mourners, and an angel, leaf 00200.

Rubricated two-column type page — Two-column page of Koberger's gothic type with red rubrication and a large decorated Lombardic initial opening a new contemplation, leaf 00700.

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A Franciscan devotional treatise by Stephan Fridolin, printed by Anton Koberger on 8 November 1491. Its renown rests on the 91 full-page woodcuts from the Wolgemut–Pleydenwurff workshop — the same Nuremberg shop that would supply the cuts for Koberger's Nuremberg Chronicle two years later, where the young Albrecht Dürer was apprenticed.

Referenced in Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450–1800.

Details

Title: Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils
Author: Stephan Fridolin
Printer: Anton Koberger
Place: Nuremberg
Year: 1491
Format: f°
Language: German
Theme: illustration

Facsimiles

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Images

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Rar. 293 b — Public Domain Mark 1.0

References

ISTC is00306000