book;
print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.543
- Title
- Series: Apocalypse
- Description
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Title-page of the German edition 'Die heimliche Offenbaru[n]g ioh[an]nis', two lines of cut title and letterpress on the verso; with fifteen woodcuts of the series bound in vellum, 1498
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1498
- Dimensions
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Height: 130 millimetres (title)
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Width: 182 millimetres (title)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the title-page of a complete copy of the series printed by Anton Koberger (with his typeface) Nuremberg, 1498; this includes15 woodcuts, all but the last with German text in letterpress on the verso. This copy is bound in vellum with Mitchell's distinctive tooling pattern and the title: 'Die Heimlich Offenbarung Johannis' stamped on the cover.
See Meder, p.277, X. first edition; G.Bartrum, 'German Renaissance Prints', ex.cat.BM ,1995, no.12; 'Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy' exh. cat. BM, 2002, no.57;
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1971 BM, Dürer, no.55
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Die heimliche Offenbaru[n]g ioh[an]nis
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- There are manuscript Italian inscriptions on a sheet bound in front of the title-page (on paper with an eighteenth-century watermark) which suggest that prior to Towneley's collection, the series belonged to an anonymous Italian collector, and was bound together with a set of the Large Passion (without text).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0122.543
