print;
blockbook
- Museum number
- 1845,0809.4
- Title
- Series: Biblia Pauperum
- Description
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Sheet 3: the Adoration of the Magi, flanked by Abner and David l, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba r. c.1465
Woodcut page from a blockbook
- Production date
- 1460-1470 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 194 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of three sheets of the Biblia Pauperum (another edition of the same blockbook as Dodgson's C.1). The folios 1 and 2 (signature a, b) are registered as 1845,0809.1, 2.
The remaining twenty-eight leaves of this copy belonged to a Mr. Stevens in 1849.
The present set corresponds to Schreiber's Manuel de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, vol. IV, Leipzig 1902, pp. 1-89, premier groupe, III.
For information on the Biblia Pauperum see the comment for the first sheet of the series (C.1), registered as 1845,0809.13
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1845
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1845,0809.4