book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1904,0206.37
Description: 'Dialogi Platonis...Bilibaldo Pirckheymero Interprete'; book of Plato's supposititious works, printed by F Peypus in Nuremberg in 1523, with a title-border woodcut, adapting freely Albrecht Dürer's decorative strapwork ornaments of 'knots' of c.1507. 1523 Woodcut and letterpress
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Production date: 1523
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Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 198 millimetres; Width: 125 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Although the title-border can be linked to all six knot-designs (Meder 274-279), it appears to be closest to Meder 279.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (279) (copy); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.160.145) (copy); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.293.59) (copy; cf); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.147) (wrongly illustrated; copy)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1904,0206.37

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