print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.1120
- Description
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Text-page border with playing putti; a devilish creature in upper border, two young boys holding a shield with the printer's mark of Froben in lower border; printed from six blocks. Also initial 'P' from Holbein the Younger's Roman majuscule alphabet with playing putti. Illustrations to Desiderius Erasmus, 'In epistolam Pauli ad Romanos Paraphrasis ...', Basel: J. Froben, January 1518.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
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1517
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1518 (Printed)
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres (Border)
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Height: 47 millimetres (Initial)
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Width: 142 millimetres (Trimmed on r)
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Width: 45 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM also has an impression of the same border from a 1517 edition of Erasmus's 'Querela', see 1874,0711.1812.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: In epistolam Pauli ad Romanos paraphrasis (Basel 1518)
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0122.1120