print;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.2396
- Description
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Bookplate for Hieronymus Baumgärtner; a coat of arms with a parrot sitting on a lily, the same motif repeated on the helmet with plume feathers above. In the four corners clockwise starting from the top left: an hour class, a dial, a coat of arms with three stars and a skull. 1530s
Engraving
- Production date
- 1530s
- Dimensions
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Height: 71 millimetres
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Width: 55 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hieronymus Baumgartner or Paumgartner (1498-1565) was a Nuremberg patrician and humanist and, like Willibald Pirckheimer, commissioned a bookplate for use in his library (see 1910,0212.310). His coat of arms is surrounded by a shield with three stars, which according to Warnecke is the arms of the Derrer family, and a clock, an hourglass and a skull (F. Warnecke, 'Die deutschen Bücherzeichen - Ex-Libris - von ihrem Ursprunge bis zur Gegenwart', Berlin, 1890, no. 137). The latter three emblems relate to his motto, which refers to the passage of time, and which is inscribed in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, the three languages of the scholar, in the border of the print, cut off in this impression. When Pauli wrote his catalogue, the plate for this print was in the Warnecke collection in Berlin and modern reprints of it are in existence (see also E. Doepler, 'Baumgartners Ex-Libris von Barthel Beham', 'Zeitschrift für Bücherzeichen, Bibliothekenkunde und Gelehrten-geschichte, Berlin, vi, 1896, pp. 101f).
In the impressions of the second state like this one, the original inscription has generally been removed and the sheet cut closer to the central design's frame. For an impression of the first state with text and uncut, see Victoria & Albert Museum, E.2224-1920.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1995 Jun-Oct, BM, 'German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550', no.127
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.2396
